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Title: Terrible Book
Review: The major stumbling block for this book is that it does not contain worked out examples. Worked out examples are a most. Another problem is not completing started examples. For example, the book talks about SELECT statements and uses a simple SELECT statement such as, SELECT * from TABLE. But then the book gets around to talking about getting the data from a SELECT statement, it switches the SELECT statement to SELECT name, address, number from TABLE. They do not explain how to grab the data from the previous SELECT statment, something that is quite fundamental if you are generating a report. As it stands, it looks like one has to specify every field in the table the SELECT statement is issued against. Which can be quite hefty and something that Java does much better!I will look for a better book and perhaps a better technology, the Perl DBI does not look as robust as JDBC for database programming.
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