Visual Basic .NET : database programming

I was truly excited when I acquired this book. However, after spending much time painstakingly following code that promised much but produced nothing; I can with all honesty say use your resources more prudently. Visual Basic .NET Database Programming explains how you can use databases in your Visual Basic .NET applications. Using databases, you can store and manipulate large amounts of data in a consistent manner, search for specific pieces of data, and fetch different groups of records arranged in various ways. Visual Basic .NET Database Programming talks briefly about several different ways a program manages data, but it focuses heavily on the most common type of database in use today: a relational database.Visual Basic .NET Database Programming explains how to use wizards and bound controls to let the user interact with a database with minimal effort on your part. It shows how to design and normalize a relational database, and then use database objects to create the database itself. Visual Basic .NET Database Programming shows how to populate the database with database objects and manipulate the data programmatically, and how to control access to the data with user privileges and roles. Tying user interface elements and database objects together, it shows how you can allow even inexperienced users to perform ad hoc searches and build powerful queries.

Visual Basic.NET Database Programming walks the readers step-by-step through the topics they need to know to use databases effectively. This book teaches with real-world scenarios how to load, display, manipulate, modify and save data in databases. It shows the reader how to build multi-tier applications that implement enterprise-wide business solutions, build Web Servers, manage large amounts of data, find specific records, sort data, perform complex queries, and use XML--an integral part of data handling in Visual Basic.NET.