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Summary: Should be more than 5 stars
Review: I bought this book and the same author's Visual C# .NET book, also from Sybex.I found the introductory chapter on SQL very useful, since I didn't know SQL to begin with; I found it contained everything I needed to know to get going with databases. Just enough without going overboard! This book teaches the basics of databases, and then plunges in to teach how to use C# to access a database. The book also teaches advanced data access using C#, such as caching data in an ADO.NET program.
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Summary: Very helpful
Review: I found this book to be very helpful to me in connecting and using the Microsoft Access database with some Visual Studio C# programming I was struggling with. It is the only book I have found that at all addresses Access and it adequately covers the needed information to make the connection and manipulate data using SQL. Whether you are using Access of SQL2000 and especially if you are struggling I highly recommend this book to you.
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Summary: Very helpful
Review: I found this book to be very helpful to me in connecting and using the Microsoft Access database with some Visual Studio C# programming I was struggling with. It is the only book I have found that at all addresses Access and it adequately covers the needed information to make the connection and manipulate data using SQL. Whether you are using Access of SQL2000 and especially if you are struggling I highly recommend this book to you.
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Summary: Use it every day
Review: I have this book and the author's other C# book from Sybex. I didn't know ADO.NET before buying this book and now I'm an expert. I use this book every day too!
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Summary: I liked it
Review: I liked this book. I didn't knew C#, but I didn't know SQL Server or how to write programs that access a database using C#. I was able to learn both quickly from this book. The book also covers how to use Visual Studio.NET and writing XML and web services. I highly recommend this book
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Summary: Great
Review: I thought it's great to C# programmers,as a reference Tool Book,and there also were lots of kind job to work with the Database....
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Summary: Tutorial with lots of screenshots
Review: The book has a tutorial style with tons of screenshots. It works through examples step by step with lots of code and not much exposition. If you want an on-rails guided tour to the .NET database APIs with C#, this book is for you. For me I would rather go with an introductory style which gives an overview of an entire API. An example is the chapter three section on SQL, which is thirty pages long. It only veers off the rails twice, once to talk about less than, greater than, equals to, etc. and another time to talk about and, not and or. The chapter spends only half a page on insert, delete and update. If you wanted to learn SQL from scratch you couldn't do it from this chapter, and if you already knew SQL, you would skip this chapter. So I'm not sure what the purpose is. Conclusion, if you like "on-the-rails" tutorials and you want to learn .NET database programming that way, this book is for you.
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Summary: Good concise introduction to SQL Server 2000 / C#
Review: This book is a good introductionto SQL server 2000 programming with C#. The author introduces the basics of SQL server in the first part and focuses on the ADO.NET in the second part. I like the format well. Overall a very good book.
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Summary: Great, but not for the beginners
Review: This book is probably the best book in the market if you want to take your novice c# asp.net skills to intermediate/expert level. It provides plenty of good examples and practically all the knowledge you need to become a fully competent c# asp.net developer.
I especially found the chapter on SQL and T-SQL particulary awesome. As a Senior DBA who has worked on SQL for 7 years, I thought the author had superb knowledge of SQL transactions which I rarely see even amongst the SQL books. I highly suggest every c# developer to delve deelply into the SQL chapters of this book as it will increase your T-SQL transaction knowledge exponentially.
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Summary: Best book on C# and ADO.NET
Review: This is the best book on C# and ADO.NET. It was also easy to understand. I learned how to write C# programs that access a SQL Server database. I also learned SQL and how to use Transact-SQL. I even learned how to use Visual Studio.NET and write XML web services! This book stands out because it introduces you to SQL and databases, as well as teaching how to write C# programs that access a database. All the other ADO.NET books only cover writing a C# program that accesses a database, and don't cover how write SQL. I give this book two thumbs up. I highly recommend you get this book if you are interested using in C# and databases together.
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