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Java Database Programming with JDBC
Audience: Beginner Rating: 5 Pratik Patel and Karl Moss
The Coriolis Group, September 1996
ISBN 1-57610-056-1; 500 pages; $39.99 US
This is my favorite JDBC book, and the many colleagues who have borrowed this book (alot) agree. It has a good brief introduction to SQL for novices, and then lots of explanation and examples of using JDBC. It also has a simple text-based database program that could be useful for testing with simple database info. It includes a CD-ROM.

The Java code is a bit sloppy and contains typos. Variables inconsistently start with uppercase characters, and use other strange conventions, and there is some strange terminology (like calling variables "properties").

However, a colleague with database experience likes this book much better than others because it uses more industrial-strength databases for its examples (as opposed to mSQL shareware), and goes into more technical detail about what's going on under the covers, such as database drivers, etc. It also has a nice mapping of JCBC-ODBC functions, more appendices and examples.

There is a 2nd edition out now; I haven't seen it yet.

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