Murach's Visual Basic 2005
An introduction to database programming

Database processing is an integral part of Visual Basic business applications, yet most Visual Basic books give you only a chapter or two on handling databases. In contrast, chapter 13 in this book is the first in a 5-chapter section on database programming. It starts out by introducing you to database design and SQL queries. Then, it gives you the conceptual background that you need for learning how to develop database applications in the chapters that follow.
Chapter 13 An introduction to database programming
An introduction to client/server systems 392
The hardware components of a client/server system 392
The software components of a client/server system 394
An introduction to relational databases 396
How a table is organized 396
How the tables in a database are related 398
How the columns in a table are defined 400
The design of the MMABooks database 402
How to use SQL to work with a relational database 404
How to query a single table 404
How to join data from two or more tables 406
How to add, update, and delete data in a table 408
An introduction to ADO.NET 410
The .NET data providers 410
How the basic ADO.NET components work 412
Concurrency and the disconnected data architecture 414
How a dataset is organized 416
How to work with data without using a data adapter 418
Two ways to create ADO.NET objects 420


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