Sams Teach Yourself Active Web Database Programming in 21 Days | 
| Authors: Alexander Stojanovic, Matt Warren, Joyce Chia-hsun Chen
Creator: Dina Fleet
Publisher: Sams
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 1970401
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 888
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.3 x 2.3
ISBN: 1575211394
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.758
EAN: 9781575211398
Publication Date: May 16, 1997
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
Teach Yourself Active Web Database Programming in 21 Days is a comprehensive guide to the collection of technologies offered by Microsoft for accessing data via Web pages. The book's four authors do an excellent job of taking the reader through the underpinnings of today's Web, although the writing from chapter to chapter differs a bit, no doubt a result of its team authorship. Assuming the reader has a general knowledge of Visual Basic programming, the book lays out the foundations of HTTP, Web servers, browsers, and page delivery through HTML and CGI scripts. The center of the book outlines three major Microsoft technologies: Active Server Pages (ASPs) based on VBScript; ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), for getting to databases and generating Web pages dynamically from data; and the new Advanced Data Connector (ADC) technology, which allows Web pages to access live data. Though they occasionally slip into advertising mode for Microsoft's solutions, the authors are careful to show why each technology offers distinct advantages for Web developers. They do a particularly good job at explaining the underlying architecture of each technology, and include careful diagrams. The book also contains reference material covering the properties and methods for the scripting objects used in each of the technologies presented. Simple source code snippets, as well as numerous screenshots, will help the reader throughout the book. Working examples for several data-driven Web sites are also included. A handy appendix with online sources for all the necessary tools rounds out the book. For Microsoft-based Web developers, this title will surely be a very useful tutorial and guide.
Product Description
Teaches the fundamentals of Visual Basic script, HTML, HTPP, ActiveX, and databases, and progresses to such topics as creating dynamic Web pages from the server using ADO and the ADC. Original. (Intermediate)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Out of date November 30, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a grate book, except for the fact that most of the examples do not work (even from the provided cd), and some of the controls referred to are out of date and some, no longer supported. The first half of the book is ok to get you familiarized with ASP and web based data access.
 Theory book only - don't try to put it to use November 20, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book is probably terrific for managers who simply want to 'read' about the technology. Don't try to put the examples to use though; you'll be quite frustrated.I found that this book did NOT NEARLY meet the qualities that I have found in other Teach Yourself series books. Teach Yourself Visual Basic 5 in 21 days and Teach Yourself Visual Basic for Applications in 21 days were 100% better than this book. Poorly written, not tested, not worth the money.
Full of syntax error May 1, 1999
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Just as the teach yourself 21 days series, this book is also full of syntax errors. I wish I could get a refund. Surprise, most of the examples in this book simply doesn't work.I won't buy any teach yourself series again. It just waste my money
 Awesome web technologies destroyed by non-working examples April 4, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book covers awesome web technologies; however, non-working created a lot of frustrations on my part and makes me wonder about the validity of the entire book altogether.To the authors, try to test run your examples before releasing the book and its cd.
Okay Book, Some Examples did not work. January 22, 1999
Very interesting book with lots of information. I had a very frustrating time with the examples that did not work. I ended up not really using the CD at all and just stuck to reading through the examples in the book.
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