Reviews for Beginning C# 2008 Databases: From Novice to Professional (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

1. read it without touching the code

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, January 12rd, 2010

   I started reading this book, having looked at c# briefly, I specialise in databases and wanted to tackle this from the other end and this book is really great for giving you really clear instructions of connections and what the actual code is doing. I've read most of the book without typing in the code. I plan on going back over it and making sure I understood it by then revisiting the examples, but well done. The only thing I think I would have liked to see if more potential projects for the reader to try and get their head around, but I guess that's up to the individuals experiece. All in all a very easy read to cover all the basics of databases and c#

2. Curious title

   Rated 2 out of 5 stars, October 12th, 2009

   If you expect this book to teach you about creating database applications with C#. This is not it, read the title again.
   
   The first half is about SQL. How to Select, Join, create procedures etc but nothing to do with c#.
   
   Then there is a little bit about creating a connection, this is in c# but as a console application and it literally does just create a connection.
   
   The chapter on Windows forms, is about how to add a windows form but nothing about databases or data aware components. It simply is a beginners guide to creating a form.
   Likewise the chapter on ASP.NET tells you about ASP but not about doing anything database wise with it.
   
   Maybe the chapter on events?, but no these are button events on a windows form (whats that got to do with databases?). Nothing to do with controlling events such as triggers etc you might do with a database.
   
   So this book is really a beginners book to c# - but there are much better and detailed ones about - (try head first)
   it is also a beginners book about SQL
   
   But it is NOT a book about creating database apps with C#.
   
   I gave the book two stars because it is an easy and quite pleaant read and I did learn a few bits about SQL, like creating XML. But did not learn anything about creating a DB application.
   
   Maybe if the title was "Beginning C#, Beginning Databases" it would make sense but I still struggle with it!