Database Programming with JDBC and Java

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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I am not new to database programming, but I am new to JAVA. I was looking for concise code examples of how to accomplish inserts, deletes, and updates using JDBC and JAVA. I am one of those individuals that learn best from examples. Updates are covered in the example code, but the non-trivial items of inserts and deletes are not. The book is more about three tier client/server and RMI than it is about fully useful database programming using JDBC and JAVA.

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Summary: Very Superficial
Review: I bought this book after seeing the review. To my dismay I found out that this only deal with things superficially.
For instance the whole transaction isolation is discussed in 1 and a half pages. And it is very confusing. First he categorises it into 3 dirty read, repeatable read and phantom read. But while discussing getTransactionIsolation(), he uses 4 - dirty, repeatable, non repeatable and phantom. Nowhere is the non repeatable read explained.
The organisation of the book is also very poor.
The last 100 or so pages is nothing but a copy of Suns API reference.

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Summary: Not a good reference for adv reader, not a good tutorial
Review: I do not understand where this book fits. It's not a good reference, nor is it a good tutorial for the beginners. I wanted to know, for example, how we may know the total number of rows in the result set (which can be easily done in ASP/ADO). The book was so unorganized (and index was not sufficient) that I couldn't know where to look for. After exhaustive search, I found that the information is not there. As an appendix, the book contains JavaDoc for JDBC. From the JavaDoc, which is essentially the list of methods, I could only guess that I may use last() and getRowNumber() to get the total number of rows in the result set. But I felt that there should be a better, direct way to do this like in ASP/ADO. So, I looked at JDBC Tutorial and Reference 2nd edition, and it explained that using last() and getRowNumber() is the only way to do it. A little bit disappointed by the new version of Sun's JDBC. It introduced a lot of new functionalities in the new version, and why not this simple row counting function, which can be very popularly used on Web application (especially for paging) ? Anyway, I think that Sun's JDBC Tutorial and Reference is a much better book.

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Summary: A mistitled book
Review: I don't know whether I like this book or not. On the one hand, it's really not a "JDBC" book, but a book about designing three-tier architectures. The treatment of JDBC is flimsy, at best, and would be a disappointment to those looking to learn just about JDBC. On the other hand, the material is an interesting discussion on how to implement an application server. Perhaps the book ought to be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents?

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Summary: Concise treatment of JDBC and persistent objects
Review: I found this book a pleasant surprise. It covers some very interesting and non-trivial concepts (persistent objects, JDBC, RMI) without wasting much text. The author does not assume the reader is a dummy (as too many Java books do), and his persistence framework is a nice bonus for coders looking to leverage their readings

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Summary: This book is good and Only good (sorry george)
Review: I found this book hard to follow and the sample code was to big to learn from. If you are looking to learn JDBC programming you will learn a small amount from this one !

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Summary: Javadoc in book form
Review: I have been disappointed with this book. It does not go in-depth for advanced topics and most of the helpful information is merely a printed version of the Javadocs. Better resources can be found on the web for serious JDBC development.

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Summary: A light weight introduction to a complex subject
Review: I have programmed in Java for sometime, but have not used JDBC. This book really didn't help me accomplish that goal. I started with "JDBC Database Access with Java" and wanted to go farther, but this is not that book. In fact, the author seems anti-Microsoft since he did not include ANY REFERENCE to JDBC connectivity with Microsoft Access (which is on many desktops). MS/Access turned out to be the best db for me to learn SQL programming through Java.

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Summary: Good Book, but mis-titled
Review: I think that the book was very helpful, though not at what I originaly what I needed it for. It needs to cover JDBC in more detail.

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Summary: Good Book, but mis-titled
Review: I think that the book was very helpful, though not at what I originaly what I needed it for. It needs to cover JDBC in more detail.