I was a little mislead with the title. I was expecting a help with a web-oriented database design. I was looking for info on secure design, user management, multi-language support, database clusters, etc...

But it does not. Actually it only talks about databases in 2-3 chapters and those are on a real basic level (create tables in Access en simple SELECT statements).
All the other stuff is the use of visual studio, Visual Basic, how to drop components, etc.

I do NOT recommend this book to any one with some programming expercience. If you know a little VB, made basic ASP(.NET) pages and played around with Access a few times then this book will not teach you anything new. You will be more with this book: Microsoft Press book "ASP.NET programming with Visual C#.NET", ISBN: 0735619352. All my collegues (8) just loved it.

How ever if you have no to very little programming experience, new to dynamic webpages and still in the learning curve of (basic) database use. I would recommend this book.

--Wout

Web experience
* ASP 1.5 year
* ASP.NET 3 months.

This was very helpful book, full of examples. I like the writer's style, which is concise and moves right ahead. However, I wish that Jim used an increasingly popular method to reference the code-- with colored numbers or something to help call out which line he was explaining. His explanations got bogged down a bit by the way he referenced his own code blocks. Visually beefing this up, would have been welcomed.

I found his brief notes and tips to be useful advice- delivered from an experienced programmer to a beginning to intermediate coder. The majority of these were useful points. Authentiction and ADO stuff was good, but I needed more sources as well.

It took me some effort to find this MSPRESS edition. I do hope that MSPRESS hasn't discontinued this and that a new revision is in the works. Reccomended.

It is a general discussion on setting up a web but very little on the web database programming.

You're better off learning from other sources. Do your research before buying this book. I sold it and got some money back, but you may not be so lucky . . . .

I really loved chapter 1. Chapters 2 and 3 had way too much reference material without opportunity to use it. I was trying to memorize too much detail. Many things were mentioned with the idea they would be elaborated on later. They could've been saved for later. I'm only on Chapter 4 but I am really struggling to keep going and I have read many books like this cover to cover. Because I do not do development in my current role this is a very challenging book for me. I look forward to getting to later chapters but it is rough going. I like that examples are Access based, not SQL server-based.