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Glenn Johnson
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Product Description Dive in for reference where you need it and learn the intricacies of developing sleeker, more robust, security-enhanced applications in ADO.NET 2.0. Featuring code samples in Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic, this reference goes beyond the fundamentals to help professional developers solve sophisticated enterprise development problems. Discover how to: Examine advanced connectivity options and best practices including connection pooling, clustered connections, and asynchronous access Use tracing to diagnose application flow and performance issues Resolve concurrency conflicts and implement a data access layer Implement seamless application failover from one Microsoft SQL Server database to another Use managed code and the SQLCLR to create stored procedures, user-defined functions and types, aggregates, and triggers Write effective data-caching code to improve application performance Use the Systems.Transactions namespace to work with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Implement streaming techniques to chunk data Apply various methods to extract and modify XML data PLUS Get code samples on the Web
Featured Customer Reviews Very good book, lacks some in depth topic,
April 07, 2008 This is a very good book, well written, the author has a clean style that I enjoyed very much. All topics are extensively covered with small but very useful examples. No pages of code: Just what is needed.
I give 4 stars only because it lacks explaining some in depth argument such as subclassing datasets or typed datatables. I expect a new edition with add-ins that will cover those new topics. Ok book. Not so advanced,
January 18, 2007
I think that saving 4 to 6 chapters that were not need it, they could have extended the book to be far more advanced and concentrate in transactions, SQLCLR and so on.
Good not Great...,
July 17, 2006 Glenn Johnson has a very good book here on ADO.NET 2.0. Unfortunately, it just good not great. Here are my pros and cons:
Pros:
1. Well written and thought out.
2. Excellent coverage of ADO.NET Trace Logging.
3. Coverage of LOBs/BLOBs/CLOBs is very well thought out.
4. Discussion of Connection Pooling is very good.
5. Coverage of writting your own classes that work with System.Transactions is invalulable.
Cons:
1. Too many basic topics covered for an "Advanced Topics" book.
2. ASP.NET GridView/WinForms GridView chapters are unnecessary and incomplete.
3. Code examples are terse and somewhat unreadable (no blank lines).
4. Some information inaccurate (e.g. Suggestion of using Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2005 which was dropped as a supported feature.)
5. SQL Server Specific...lackluster Oracle, ODBC, OleDb coverage.
6. Data Caching only discusses caching with SqlDependencyCache. There are a myriad of caching options, and this is only one of them.
While not really a problem with the book, I disagree with the author in a number of assertions:
- He pushes the idea of GUIDs as keys, but never discusses the index fragmentation issue with GUIDs as keys.
- His discussion of SQLCLR doesn't warn the users enough (I know "enough" is a subjective phrase) that they shouldn't write all their code in SQLCLR.
- Mentions that "The 8,000-byte limit is much higher than you should ever need." when discussing SQLCLR User Defined Types. -- I disagree since a single object might not reach that, but a shallow object graph will reach 8K very easily.
- No comparison between SQLCLR UDT's and XML Typed XML.
- Using XML in SQL Server is touted instead of disuaded. More often than not, storing your XML in SQL Server just to have it there (or without dissecting it into relational data) will just hurt performance and raise the complexity of a system.
I gave the book a four out of five starts on Amazon.com because I think it will be a valuable resource for most developers. But it is not a perfect book.
Not quite what I was expecting.,
June 30, 2006 This book does delve deep into the plumbing of ADO.Net 2.0, but I must admit that when I read the "Advanced Topics" part of the title, I thought that it would actually cover more complicated versions of some scenarios that might be found in "beginners" ADO.Net books such as handling many-to-many data relationships with bound controls and possibly designing and building a data access layer. While data access layers were covered to some degree, the described methods involved intensive interaction with SQL Server system tables - something I don't tend to make a practice of.
The information in the book is good, just not what I was hoping to find.
Great book, missing practical use. ,
May 03, 2006 Great book for ado.net. I wish this book has covered "how to use new features of ado.net with business layer. There should be some more chapter(s) for data acesss layer utilizing ado.net.
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