Close all databases - tutorial - book

[Neal Campbell]

I bought the book and while I am not a beginner, it was a great purchase.
Congrats Mark!

Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal LLC




On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> Hi Ruslan,
>
> - the turorial contains a "collectPains" handler, which is really too much
> for a starting Valentina user and which is also superfluous. In a tutorial
> like this, there shouldn't be such a handler.
>
> - the tutorial doesn't tell me how to use VServer. Nada.
>
> - the tutorial is in the wrong order. Is starts with opening and closing a
> database and continues with creating an interface. When you read a first
> step-by-step tutorial, you don't want to read about a creating an
> interface. You want to know: a) create connection, b) create or open
> database, c) do the most simple query you can thing of, d) close the
> database, e) close the connection, f) you can repeat this as often as you
> like without getting in trouble. It is very important that you do this in
> exactly this order without adding stuff that is not necessary in the very
> first tutorial.
>
> - the query in step 5, using vDatabase_Table() and other functions really
> is something that you'd write in another tutorial, for people who already
> comprehend the first tutorial
>
> - there's lots and lots of info about navigating records and when you're
> starting with Valentina, you don't even understand why you'd need that and
> there are no explanation of why you'd need that.
>
> - step 6 shouldn't be there either. This isn't something for starters.
>
> - The tutorial should finish with step "Closing Connections and Databases".
>
> - Tutorial 2 should also explain that only 5 connections can be made and
> how you can make sure that an application uses only one connections.
>
> Yes, send me your postal mail. I'll send you my book.
>
>
> --
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>
> Mark Schonewille
>
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> On 10/15/2013 18:02, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>>  That tutorial really didn't help me. I've looked at it years ago and I
>>> looked
>>> at it again recently.
>>>
>>
>> The main question is: why It did not help you?
>>
>> It shows how to get working db application.
>> Step by step.
>>
>> Of course it not answers all possible questions.
>> What exactly was hard? If you remember of course
>>
>>
>>  Maybe I should send you my book. If you contact me
>>> off-list with your address, I'll send it to you. It'll show you what good
>>> tutorials look like.
>>>
>>
>> You mean email or post-box?
>>
>>
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