Database Driven Web Sites

Rating:
Summary: I recommend a better book
Review: I read through this book and learned a few things, but it is not an in-depth step-by-step guide. It seems to be aimed at amateurs or IS people who are clueless about database-driven Web sites, which is possible since IT is a wide field.

If you truly want a step-by step guide and you're going to use Microsoft products/technologies, you definitely have to check out 'Web Database Development Step by Step.' This is your step-by-step guide! It is a cookbook with excellent insight. There truly aren't many guide books covering Web DB development, and that MS Press book is a gem.

Rating:
Summary: I recommend a better book
Review: I read through this book and learned a few things, but it is not an in-depth step-by-step guide. It seems to be aimed at amateurs or IS people who are clueless about database-driven Web sites, which is possible since IT is a wide field.

If you truly want a step-by step guide and you're going to use Microsoft products/technologies, you definitely have to check out 'Web Database Development Step by Step.' This is your step-by-step guide! It is a cookbook with excellent insight. There truly aren't many guide books covering Web DB development, and that MS Press book is a gem.

Rating:
Summary: A lightweight general introduction to a complicated topic.
Review: This book is an introductory overview for the non-professional. Far from living up to its cover copy, the book seems to be aimed at individuals or amateurs who, for example, want to present their collections of antique baseball cards online. It includes whole sections, for example, covering Microsoft Access and FileMaker Pro while coverage of Oracle, DB2, or SQL server is handled by a couple of paragraphs. I seriously doubt if any IS professional will find this book "to be an invaluable step-by-step guide" as claimed on the cover.