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Summary: Good Book
Review: This is a book that I was interested in at first glance. I've exchanged e-mail and
tech edited some work George has done for another publisher. A good author combined with
an excellent publisher looked to be a good combination.
This book covers a wide range of material. From database theory to SQL to persistence to
RMI instead of a lot of JDBC. The writing is very clear and many programming examples are
given.
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Summary: Not enough detail on JDBC!
Review: This is a good book for the advanced JDBC programmer. Not the best book I 've read. The author does cover some advanced concepts, but I think he should write more code using the advanced concepts.
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Summary: JDBC
Review: This is a good book for the advanced JDBC programmer. Not the best book I 've read. The author does cover some advanced concepts, but I think he should write more code using the advanced concepts.
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Summary: very good persistence concepts - even useful for C++
Review: This is a great book about the design and implementation of a persistence framework in a distributed environment. All those one/two star reviews from the other readers made me buy this one. Even if you're not using Java as a programming language, the concepts mentioned are easy to adapt to C++.
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Summary: probably out of date now
Review: this is a pretty good book. good ideas but i feel that a certain amount of what the author describes is now automated by JDBC 2 classes.
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Summary: Excellent discussion of persistence and RMI.
Review: This is an excellent intermediate book on persistence using JDBC 1.x. This is not an introductory text but rather a thought provoking read with lots of meaty concepts for people interested in persistence and distributed applications.
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Summary: Needs more JDBC examples
Review: Try to find a book that covers how to call an Oracle Stored Procedure that uses a Cursor Variable. Try to find a book that shows a number of different ways to handle result sets (besides the very weak, simple example that is in every JDBC book on the market). How about comparing an "open" approach to calling stored procedures versus using driver or database specific classes and syntax? (i.e OracleResultSet and BEGIN call x . . This information is not covered well on Oracle's or Sun's web sites, so database programmers really need this kind of book. I'm hoping the second edition of this book covers such topics, because the first edition devotes about 2 inadequate paragraphs on the subject. The discussion on persistence is very good - but the book reads like it is unfinished.
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