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Title: Save Your Money
Review: This book is awful! The books loses focus and forgets who its audience is over and over. There are discussions about the mandatory features that need to be implemented when writing a database driver, Visual Source Safe, and many other topics that don't have any thing to with writing a C++ database application.To make matter worse the book is also riddled with typos - both grammar and code. The book spends more time discussing MFC than it does implementing the database code. The coding style displayed in this book is that of a beginner. If you are an beginner programmer this is an example of how NOT to program. The code is very inconsistent and poorly laid out. Functions for common pieces of code are never created and instead copied each time that it is needed - sometimes 3 or 4 times in one tiny example application).This isn't the typical book that you would expect from Wrox. Their books are normally solid, but this one really misses the mark. Save your money.
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