All reviews have been positive!
In PC Week, John Taschek wrote the book "deftly covers the major issues developers face when creating database applications" and "North's book is a must read."
Windows Tech Journal called the book a "Database Consultant's Survival Guide."
DBMS and Windows NT magazines gave the book a favorable recommendation. In Windows NT, Michael D. Reilly wrote "Windows Multi-DBMS Programming condenses a small library of useful information for database application developers."
In DBMS, Clara Parkes wrote "Frequent DBMS contributor, consultant, database programmer, and author Ken North has released a new book that offers help for developers who create and use Windows-based database applications. Windows Multi-DBMS Programming: Using C++, Visual Basic, ODBC, OLE 2, and Tools for DBMS Projects offers a comprehensive survey of DBMS engines and servers, Windows software development products, multidatabase programming, database applications, ODBC, data access and presentation tools, and client/server tool suites. "
Here's an excerpt from the review at amazon.com: "This book contains much of the information you need in order to develop Windows applications with lots of snazzy database-related features. North explains far more than ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), detailing dozens of Windows technologies that you can use to communicate with Database Management Systems (DBMSs) of various kinds.
Opening with a discussion of how programmers can structure databases and their interfaces in Windows, Windows Multi-DBMS Programming goes on to explain general database concepts, such as table structure and optimization." Click here to read the entire review.
"an expert on ODBC, and the author of Windows Multi-DBMS Programming, which covers ODBC in detail" --- Maurice Frank, editor of DBMS magazine
"This book is a great effort and is quite the magnum opus for this field. The breadth of areas covered is quite awesome." -- Murali Venkatrao, Senior ODBC Program Manager, Microsoft
"I wanted to mention this cool book published by John Wiley & Sons. It's about developing client/server applications using various tools under Windows. The author is Ken North, who is widely regarded as one of the best ODBC and client/server database experts on the planet." -- Bill Slater, Net Consultant, ACI
"all Windows developers should read the chapters on ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) and Object Linking and Embedding, two subjects on which North is an acknowledged expert" -- John Taschek, Director, PC Week Labs
Do you need to get up to speed on ODBC? This book is the closest thing there is to an ODBC encyclopedia. It explains how to use adaptive techniques to write interoperable programs. Find that in any other book about ODBC!
It discusses installation and the use of ODBC SQL. It also shows how to use ODBC with Windows applications such as Excel, Word, Lotus 1-2-3 as well as developer tools such as Visual C++ (with MFC), C++ (without MFC), Visual Basic, Access, FoxPro, PowerBuilder and SQLWindows. To help you get started with ODBC, the source code for everything from Word macros to C++ classes is on the CD-ROM.
Revised: May 31, 1999