This book is a good introductionto SQL server 2000 programming with C#. The author introduces the basics of SQL server in the first part and focuses on the ADO.NET in the second part. I like the format well. Overall a very good book.

This book is probably the best book in the market if you want to take your novice c# asp.net skills to intermediate/expert level. It provides plenty of good examples and practically all the knowledge you need to become a fully competent c# asp.net developer.

I especially found the chapter on SQL and T-SQL particulary awesome. As a Senior DBA who has worked on SQL for 7 years, I thought the author had superb knowledge of SQL transactions which I rarely see even amongst the SQL books. I highly suggest every c# developer to delve deelply into the SQL chapters of this book as it will increase your T-SQL transaction knowledge exponentially.

I found this book to be very helpful to me in connecting and using the Microsoft Access database with some Visual Studio C# programming I was struggling with. It is the only book I have found that at all addresses Access and it adequately covers the needed information to make the connection and manipulate data using SQL. Whether you are using Access of SQL2000 and especially if you are struggling I highly recommend this book to you.

I thought it's great to C# programmers,as a reference Tool Book,and there also were lots of kind job to work with the Database....

I bought this book and the same author's Visual C# .NET book, also from Sybex.

I found the introductory chapter on SQL very useful, since I didn't know SQL to begin with; I found it contained everything I needed to know to get going with databases. Just enough without going overboard!

This book teaches the basics of databases, and then plunges in to teach how to use C# to access a database. The book also teaches advanced data access using C#, such as caching data in an ADO.NET program.