Re: Database ADO Book

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From: DavidM (spam_at_spam.net)
Date: 12/19/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:01:09 -0600

Thanks --

My biggest problem with buying any computer book is there seems to be no
standard in the way they're published. I mean, beginner books seem to cover
everything under the sun briefly. Books that are aimed for the professional
or more experienced VB user, still seem to touch on the history of VB, the
language syntax. Most of the book is not even relevant to its title until
the last few chapters. Which even then seems to gloss over the subject.

I dunno, I have a bunch of books... hundreds... and usually there is only
1-2 chapters worth anything and the rest of the book is redundant to every
other book.

Opinions?

"Earl" <brikshoe@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:ev$CeyU5EHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>I have thought for a long time that one of the very best books on the
>subject was the O'Reilly book, "ADO" by Jason T. Roff. And Bill Vaughn is a
>helluva teacher, so you can't go wrong with "ADO Examples and Best
>Practices" from Apress. The latter book has more examples than the Roff
>book, but there is more hard-core reference material in the former. It's
>hard for any one book in any one topic to give you all that you need.
>
> "DavidM" <spam@spam.net> wrote in message
> news:%23AF%23VpT5EHA.2540@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> I'm curious to know what others feel is the best VB6 database book out
>> there that demonstrates real-world examples using ADO and multipel forms
>> along with datagrid controls, etc.
>>
>> Opinions?
>>
>>
>
>

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