Java 2 Database Programming for Dummies

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Summary: Java 2 Database Programming For Dummies
Review: This book has devoted two-third of the coverage to explain what is a database, types, conditional operator and so on. Readers would be benefit if they are not familiar with writing or understanding basic SQL statements. For those readers who are from SQL programming background, this book offers very little insight knowledge of how the java interact with the database such as passing binding variables. Most regretably, the majority of examples that author tries to demonstrate how the java interact with the database are unrealistic such as creating, dropping table using static SQL statment wrapped in java code.

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Summary: Poor dummies book, same thing over and over.
Review: This book has one redeeming fact, it shows you the methods and programming blocks to set up a Java application ready to execute SQL commands, and then it repeats the same thing over and over every chapter for the rest of the book!
If you have knowlede of SQL (which is obvious if you purchased this book) then you only need to read the first few chapters.

I suggest barganing at the local book store for the first few chapters, offer them $5 and you cut the first few chapters out.

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Summary: Here's someone who hopes we're REAL dummies!
Review: Yes, I'd like to get introduced to Java. And to Java with databases. So the reviews of this book look generally good. Yet isn't it strange that just after the book was published three highly possible "it changed my life" or "it saved my behind" reviews were published. All are vague about any details of the book or what it enabled them to do... Notice also how standardized (even carefully lacking typos) those first three reviews are.

Finally we get a fourth review where someone tells how unsatisfactory the book's composition is for someone actually trying to work with databases.

I've read thousands of Amz reviews over the years and seen a lot of axes to grind, but seldom do I see such transparent "plants" providing reviews.

Interestingly, my bee ess detectors were on high alert before reading these reviews because I had just looked at Burd's "Java 2 for Dummies" -- and seen a similar pattern (the positive reviews are not all clumped in the beginning, but they are cookie cutter-like similar in style and VAGUE in their positivity). Please forgive my suspiciousness, but you may want to consider seeing a real world hard copy of this book at a store before you pull out your plastic. I sure will.