Customer Review: I use this book at work all the time for projects where we are adding DB2 to old COBOL programs. I have a little bit of SQL experience, so I generally use this book as a reference. It also helps me use a variety of DB2 features to make the queries simpler and do what I really want.
Customer Review: This book is great to introduce beginners to MVS and is a handy reference when working in MVS. I give it 4 stars because it has not been updated since the 90's and the introduction uses examples that are very dated. Otherwise it would get 5 stars.
Customer Review: When doing projects that use mapping files, everyone gets a copy of this book. It is exactly what it is - a good handbook about Hibernate. The only drawback to this book is that it covers only mapping files, without any focus on annotations.
Customer Review: This book is written in an easy to read and understand format. A good refresher for anyone that needs it and will serve as a good future reference book. Very good simple examples.
Customer Review: Very good introduction. They compiler is a little dated but the text is excellent. Knocked out a fairly large project after one read. The chapter on random file access is exceptional.
Customer Review: -excelent part about DB2 working in sysples, locking mechanism
-excelent part about stored procedures
-good introduction to database administration
Customer Review: This book is even better than the original, which I bought over 10 years ago. Easy to understand and full of IMPORTANT information and lots of lesser-known features which I need, not the trivialities that you dont need. This really is a working programmer's desk guide.
Customer Review: The third edition, copyright 2006, often seems outdated. The examples and references are usually from the 1980's or 1990's. The authors provided a new edition, but I don't see that much effort went into actually updating the material. They don't even introduce object oriented approaches until the... more info
Customer Review: The book starts off well and the author makes several good points about having lighter objects and not being tied to a particular framework, but then it digresses into refactoring evangelism. Despite what this apologist believes, design cannot be neglected altogether as refactoring becomes more and... more info
