Ole Db and Odbc Developer's Guide

None of this is in the book!! Mr Wood just managed to give some examples, of which just 50% worked. In an ODBC example he couldn't even manage to create a faultless MoveLast function call. If you still don't get my point, buy the book!

Because he used MFC, which is beginning to die very slowely because of .NET, this info is useless for the future. He also used ATL. As I know ATL pretty well I can assure you that Mr Wood don't! No correct registery entries, no correct semantics, no decent interfaces, etc. etc..

If you know something about C++, like exception-safty, memory management, multythreading or write semanticly correct functions, don't be foold by the other reviews. This book is truly for the beginning developer and not for you! And even for the beginning developer I do not reccoment this book.

I still gave this book 2 stars, why? The first starr because there is a nice appendix about OLE DB properties, error codes and the ODBC API. The second starr because this is one of the only books which showed 'something' about OLE DB providers.

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the best authority for OLEDB with VC++   May 1, 2002
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Instead of using ADO in VC++ , I am totally convinced about using OLEDB after reading this book. The whole thing finally make sense. The content is easy to understand and instructional steps with concise codes to follow. It's really worth the money. I hope Chuck can update this volume now that .NET has arrived, especially with regard to XML. We still need OLEDB for VC++ version 7.


At Last a real Database Visual c++ Book   January 29, 2001
 7 out of 7 found this review helpful

This book it just wonderful , I been programming Database since 1994 and I never found a real book in visual c++ that has 668 pages of Visual c++ Database programming (until this book). It covers all the aspect that we need like (vc++ Database programmers ) : running select , delete , update, insert From any technique like DAO (the old one ) DAO and OLE DB and API ODBC He show you and explain you the code and explain you how to use Database Programming using regular VC++ and also ATL ,COM , Web-Based Databases He also show you the OLAP OLE DB Consumers . In general is explain you how to work with the MS-SQL SERVER DATABASE (NOT Oracle or Informix each of them has it won tricks!) those section I found use full for me ,Developing ATL OLE DB Consumers Catching Errors (very imported ) Developing OLE DB Providers , how ever this book focused in the OLE-DB AND SOME API ODBC and not in much in the ADO and DAO .

There is not bla bla bla in this book.

VC++/C++ experience level : You must know to use the VC++ 6 and ( also C++) , and general ATL programming So if you are not experience in those subjects you should learned them before jumping to this book if you already know VC++ but not an ATL so get an ATL book and this book also , I believe after few chapters on the ATL programming you could use this book.

Database experience level :

You should know SQL language and some basic sql-server DBA but realy the basic. HOW EERVER if you never wrote any ODBC /DATABSE software befor and you don't know what is recordset or execute , learn this topic in visual basic database programming befor reading this book in vc++.

English level : The English level here is understandable to also that not an English speakers.


Great ADO and ATL examples   June 29, 2000
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Book does a great job giving you examples so you can get your application to work. Use this book along with other books that go deeper into the ADO APIs. I found that the examples worked as written in the book. I was able to modify them to meet the needs of my application and database so i could quickly get started.