Oracle is the world's most popular high-end database and Visual Basic is the most popular programming language, but information for developers on how to get them to work together is hard to come by. This book is an essential resource for developers working with Oracle databases and Visual Basic. It provides complete information on data access methods from VB, including ADO, working with PL/SQL and Java, building ActiveX controls and COM objects, and deploying your application. This book is the perfect follow-up to Nick Snowdon's best-selling Oracle Programming with Visual Basic.
The book should have been titled "OO4O Programming with VB" and that'd merit 4.5 stars!The authors (all being Oracle Tech and Support Analyst) do a very good job of describing the workings of OO4O. While a section is dedicated to ADO, ODBC, and OLE DB, this book is primarily for OO4O users-to-be. Since I was looking to use ADO and OLE-DB, I found this book interesting but useless (only 1 example). What tickled my fancy (and I am still reading it!) is the book "Visual Basic for Oracle 8" by Dov Trietsch (Wrox) which does an unbiased treatment.
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