Database Developer's Guide with Visual C++ 4

by Peter Hipson and Roger Jennings

This title shows developers how to optimize their applications for desktop and client/server databases. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672309130
• ISBN13: 9780672309137
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 1000 Pages
• Weight: 3.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Four stars

A casual glance at the back of this volume reveals a "User Level" indicator: accomplished to expert -- definitely not for the casual or inexperienced programmer. The buyer is given fair warning. This is a good reference for the experienced C++ programmer who knows some SQL/Windows/VC++IDE and wants to put them all together to create PROFESSIONAL, industrial-strength programs for a living. The author makes no bones about targeting the most financially profitable areas of database programming. The format of this book is not geared to the dive-in-and-get-your-hands-dirty approach (which is what I prefer.) A "Hello, world!" tutorial mindset, like mine, is bored and confused by not having written anything by the end of the first few pages. Chapter 1 is a (very objective) evaluation of the available tools to do the job and why VC++ is the best. If I had been sufficiently warned, I would have skipped that one. From there on out, it is a well-organized reference and tutorial (in my opinion). This is definitely a get-the-job-done tools book for a professional writing professional programs in a real-world environment. If you want to get the skills for those six-figure jobs, this is the book to buy. (Make sure you know something about SQL/VC++ Windows development first, though.)

One of most sought after book

There are very few books in Visual C++ which writes about Visual C++ Database environment. This book has specialized and concentrated on Databases in particular