ODBC 3.5 Developer's Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Roger E. Sanders
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Dsk
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Pages: 974
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.5 x 2.5
ISBN: 0070580871
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.756
EAN: 9780070580879
ASIN: 0070580871
Publication Date: September 10, 1998
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Product Description
Introducing the complete, hands-on guide to mastering ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) 3.5, the new standard for database applications in the Windows environment. Concise yet thorough, it covers all the major database systems from Oracle, Sybase, IBM, and Informix. Readers will develop a clear understanding of the ODBC command structure and syntax through practical examples, applications, and a wealth of programming techniques.
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 A good book October 20, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a person of learning by example. I don't use all functions of ODBC, but I use whatever I need for my project. For every function I need, there is an example in this book for me to understand. Actually, I learn ODBC from this book
 a comprehensive reference book October 13, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a very good reference book for day-to-day
ODBC programming. It's easy to look up functions for
a particular task and every function has an accompanying
example. As noted earlier it may not completely follow
some of standard but for most of my purpose it's good enough.My main complaint is that a reference book of
this volume should really be published as a set of HTML
pages with a search engine. (No eBook, please!)
 Strictly a reference book. March 24, 2000
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
The text does not follow any tutorial standard or style. It is a series of essays followed by detailed examples and verbose documentation. Some thought should have gone into the presentation.
Doesn't cover ODBC 3.5 specification completely. August 18, 1999
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
Although the author notes this book doesn't contain any Unicode issue, there are many incorrect descriptions regarding the text data type and missing information about ODBC 3.5 new features. For example, column size of data may represent the length of data in characters in case the data is text, while this book describe explicitly "in bytes". The meanings are totally different especially when you handle non-Latin text data. I should recommend the serious user/developer to get Microsoft official documents and I should say this book is not based on ODBC 3.5, rather, ODBC 3.0.
 WARNING: Book does not contain the ODBC SQL Grammar May 5, 1999
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I bought the book based on the Amazon description of it being "complete" and "designed to provide you with everything you need" and was disappointed to find that it does not contain the ODBC SQL grammar. So it is NOT complete. I could not even find any references in it to how to find the SQL Grammar. Without knowing the ODBC SQL grammar it would be hard to write an interoperable application (the point of ODBC after all) with only this book.The book, however, is excellent (5 stars), especially with the ODBC specification development history, but incomplete, and the Amazon blurbs(1 star) misleading.
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