MasteringTM Database Programming with Visual Basic® 6 - Softcover

Petroutsos, Evangelos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0782125980 ISBN 13: 9780782125986

Publisher: Sybex, 2000

Synopsis

Meet the Challenge of Any Database Project with Visual Basic and ADOMastering Database Programming with Visual Basic 6 offers highly focused coverage of the techniques that make Visual Basic the ideal tool for database development. Assuming no prior experience with database programming, this book teaches you every aspect of the craft, from GUI design to server–side development to middle–tier implementation. Rather than waste your time with outmoded data access technologies, it takes you straight to the leading edge––ADO 2.5––helping you build database applications that will meet your organization′s needs now and into the future. Coverage includes:
∗ Understanding data access architectures and technologies
∗ Understanding relational database concepts
∗ Getting acquainted with SQL, including the most important features of SQL Server 7 for the VB programmer
∗ Understanding ADO and what it offers your database application
∗ Using the visual database tools
∗ Using ADO 2.5 to access databases from within your VB applications
∗ Getting the most from SQL Server using T–SQL and stored procedures
∗ Simplifying client application coding with stored procedures
∗ Constructing data–aware classes
∗ Implementing middle–tier components and data–bound ActiveX controls
∗ Supporting remote data access
∗ Encapsulating database operations with ActiveX controls
∗ Accessing a database from within Web applications using Active Server Pages
∗ Building applications that work with Internet Information Server and Microsoft Transaction Server
∗ Mapping data structures to hierarchical Recordsets and making the most of disconnected Recordsets

About this title

About the Author

Evangelos Petroutsos is a computer engineer who gained much of his experience at the California Institute of Technology and MCI. Currently, he writes computer books and works as a computer communications consultant. He has authored and co–authored dozens of programming titles, including the best–selling Mastering Visual Basic 6, and Visual Basic 6 Developer′s Handbook. He also has published numerous articles and teaches networking and programming courses.

From the Back Cover

Meet the Challenge of Any Database Project with Visual Basic and ADOMastering Database Programming with Visual Basic 6 offers highly focused coverage of the techniques that make Visual Basic the ideal tool for database development. Assuming no prior experience with database programming, this book teaches you every aspect of the craft, from GUI design to server–side development to middle–tier implementation. Rather than waste your time with outmoded data access technologies, it takes you straight to the leading edge––ADO 2.5––helping you build database applications that will meet your organization′s needs now and into the future. Coverage includes:

• Understanding data access architectures and technologies
• Understanding relational database concepts
• Getting acquainted with SQL, including the most important features of SQL Server 7 for the VB programmer
• Understanding ADO and what it offers your database application
• Using the visual database tools
• Using ADO 2.5 to access databases from within your VB applications
• Getting the most from SQL Server using T–SQL and stored procedures
• Simplifying client application coding with stored procedures
• Constructing data–aware classes
• Implementing middle–tier components and data–bound ActiveX controls
• Supporting remote data access
• Encapsulating database operations with ActiveX controls
• Accessing a database from within Web applications using Active Server Pages
• Building applications that work with Internet Information Server and Microsoft Transaction Server
• Mapping data structures to hierarchical Recordsets and making the most of disconnected Recordsets

Edition details

• Publisher: Sybex
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0782125980
• ISBN 13: 9780782125986
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 896