SQL 400 Developer's Guide (Vol 2) at Dominant Systems Book Store

A comprehensive, indispensable resource for students, programmers, and database administrators who need to learn about the AS/400 database. -- Bernadette Cinkoske, Assistant Professor, Ivy Tech State College

A practical database design and SQL programming textbook specifically for AS/400 application developers. -- Frank G. Soltis, IBM AS/400 Chief Scientist and Prof. Computer Engineering, Univ. of Minnesota

Both newcomers to the AS/400 and experienced AS/400 programmers will find SQL/400 Developer's Guide an excellent resource. -- Sharon L. Hoffman, Senior Analyst, TechReflections

This book is where you should start learning SQL on the AS/400. -- Kent Milligan, DB2 & BI Solutions, AS/400 Partner World for Developers

Customer Reviews & Comments
If I were teaching (or taking) a class on SQL/400, or just wanting to learn how to develop AS/400 database applications, this is _the_ book that I would want to use. The information needed to develop AS/400 SQL applications is available from other sources, but contained in hundreds of technical manuals, magazine articles, news group postings, and code examples (just to name a few sources). The authors have used their considerable knowledge and experiences to shorten the learning process for the reader by pulling together that information into a single place. I am especially impressed with the organization of material into manageable topics, the easy to read writing style, and numerous tips and techniques presented. I found reading this book more like reading a good novel and wanting to see what happens in the next chapter rather than reading a textbook. I have to admit however I live with this stuff every day. Having been an AS/400 database administrator for the past 10 years I can appreciate the amount of knowledge, experience and effort required to write a book of this kind. The only downside to this book that I found is that I would have liked to see more information about developing applications using JDBC, interfacing with Windows applications using ADO and ODBC, and serving AS/400 information via Web pages. I find an increasing part of my workload to be answering questions about these topics. A good majority of those questions however don't deal with language specific access mechanisms but rather from a lack of understanding about AS/400 specific features and database fundamentals, topics which are well covered in this book. After reading this book I do have one additional problem also. Now I need to buy a stack of these books to hand out to the numerous developers who cross my desk on a daily basis.

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