Although many web professionals will have incorporated a database into a web site before, they may not have much experience of designing them - this book will teach you all you need to know about designing a database for use with a web site or web application. From first principles to designing a successful web database, this book will show you how to get the most out of database design. From the Publisher Unlike other database design books in the market, this one focuses on design of databases for use on the Web. Web databases benefit from good general database design principles, but also have their own set of caveats, which must be considered for their design to be truly successful. This book covers both the general, and the web-specific database principles.

This is the only book that provides comprehensive coverage of SQL Server 2000 specifically from a Visual Basic programmer's point of view. SQL Server is now the first choice for the Visual Basic developer wanting a more powerful, reliable and sophisticated database than MS Access can provide. SQL 2000, is tightly integrated with Windows 2000, offering more support for XML and much improved OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) services. This book is for VB developers who want to integrate SQL Server 2000 into their applications. It covers everything needed to work with SQL Server 2000, including topics such as SQL Server 2000 tools, managing database security, building and deploying English query applications, and more. The Jet database engine, which has traditionally powered Access, is gradually being replaced by the Microsoft Database Engine (MSDE), a limited-client version of the SQL Server engine (but without the front-end tools such as Enterprise Manager). This means that VB developers traditionally used to using a single-file database now have to cope with the client-server architecture of SQL Server. This is a big conceptual leap, and many VB developers struggle to make it. possible, and to show them how to use the full range of SQL Server's powerful tools within their VB applications.

This book explains, demonstrates, and applies techniques that intersect with two great tools of the Information Age. The first tool the database is relatively old. While the second tool, the Internet, is still quite young. And when you pair these tools voila! You can create powerful web pages.

With the help of this book, you will learn to incorporate databases into your ASP applications using ADO (which provides a set of objects that you can connect to, read from, and write to). Youll gain comfort installing necessary software handling stored procedures. And this book will answer many real-world questions, complete with code for you to copy and paste.