For the novice programmer with some C# experience and little or no database experience, this is a great book The intermediate level programmer will also find much useful information and a foundation for the transition to professional level programmer.
— Kurtis Halvorson (Review originally published by the Denver Visual Studio User Group)
This book picks up where Beginning ASP.NET: From Novice to Professional left off, focusing on database programming with ASP.NET. As an ASP.NET developer, you probably need to access your databases quickly and efficiently. This book will provide you with the skills to do so, teaching you best practices and methods that will help achieve professional ASP.NET and database solutions.
Beyond the basics of building a Web form and placing a few controls on a page, the most common task required of ASP.NET developers is building a Web site possessing content that is stored in a database. Because general ASP.NET beginner books usually invest so many chapters going through basics, the books don't cover everything involved.
Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 Databases: From Novice to Professional is a complete, thorough introduction to this particular topic. The authors show how you can connect a Web site to many different data sources not just databases and use the data to dynamically generate page content. They also show how to build a relational database, use SQL to communicate with it, and understand how they differ from each other. Youll learn that you often have several ways to achieve the same task, and youll find out how to decide which option is the most appropriate for the task you face.
Of course, this kind of knowledge is only as good as the solutions it helps build. The authors cover the real-world issues youre likely to face, such as design, transactions, error handling, optimization and scalability. We work with SQL Server, Jet, and MySQL databases throughout the book, and we point out the practical differences among these. Finally, we set you on your way at the end with a handy case study that brings together all the things youve learned.
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Rating: - Good introductory C# web book, bad title
This is good book, but I don't think you will get what you want if you go from just the title alone. The is book is about database drive web applications using C#. There are two whole chapters on the front end ASP.NET layer using web controls and C#. Not that this is bad, mind you. The text is well written, the organization is fine, the graphics and illustrations are well done.
The book starts with an analysis of the architecture of an ASP.NET data-driven web application. It then goes ... Read More
Rating: - Great DB help for beginners
I have traditionally called myself a Web Designer, meaning that I developed websites in html and some occasional dhmtl. The sites were static in that the pages are not database driven. Except for size, the sites could forever remain in this fashion. They are mostly informational sites, where the basic information does not change, such as a church site or a religious ministry / teaching site.
Size, of course, becomes a major factor. As minor changes or design changes are made, how ... Read More
Rating: - Good enough - but leaves out some critical areas
One of the first books I bought as a classic ASP developer was the former Wrox's "Beginning ASP Databases", which greatly helped me understand the role, relationship and relevance of database systems in modern web applications. I attacked that title with reckless abandon and limited foundation, acquiring a ton of knowledge. It was with this same fervor that I launched into APress' "Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 Databases" - perhaps my over-exuberance, coupled with the fact that I know a lot more now than ... Read More
Rating: - A full solution
The book is the functional equivalent of the many out there discussing using J2EE to build a dynamical website that is hooked to SQL databases. Foggon and Maharry show how if you are in the Microsoft .NET world, you can do likewise. They give a quick summary of earlier Microsoft efforts, like COM, Data Access Objects and Remote Data Objects. And how ADO 2.0 replaced the latter 2, and in turn is superceded by ADO.NET. The entire book is a not too subtle encouragement to migrate to ASP.NET and C#.
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- Good enough - but leaves out some critical areas
