Overview
- Planning for appropriate performance, scalability, and reliability
- ADO, OLE DB, ODBC, JDBC, and ISAPI
- Making the most of Active Server Pages
- Detailed SQL Server and Microsoft Access coverage
- Includes a complete Web database case study
Building Web databases with Microsoft technologies - start to finish!
This is the first complete sourcebook for anyone who wants to deploy Web databases using Microsoft technologies! Web Database Development for Windows Platforms introduces every important Microsoft technology associated with Web/intranet database development, helping you choose the right options, then walking you through deployment step by step.
You'll learn how to plan your database for appropriate performance, scalability, and reliability; how to make the most of Active Server Pages and Activex(r) Data Objects; and more. The book contains detailed coverage of powerful "shortcuts" such as the Internet Database Connector, IDC-to-ASP Converter, SQL Server Web Publisher Wizard, and more. Discover the best ways to build database connections with Visual J++ and the Windows Foundation Classes; and how to make the most of JDBC. There's also a full chapter on publishing databases with Microsoft Access, covering the Upsizing Wizard, the Publish to the Web Wizard, HTML customization with VBA, and much more.
For thousands of developers, Web managers, and other IT professionals faced with database-enabling their Internet applications, there's never been a better place to start.