IN BRIEF: WAIT FOR THE NEXT VERSION

LONG VERSION:

I love O'Reilly Books!

THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM! Where is 'A Guest Book Servlet?' (not in the examples off you ftp site?)
I am a professional developer/consultant leading a team of developers @ one of the largest mutual fund companies in the US. This book is filled w/ typo's. I would be fired if my boss saw a one page report from me like this! Had it passed over the desk of a competent proof reader, I may be more pleased. Sure, I have been able to figure out most of the details that were altogether left out, but I could have done this w/ the docs provided via man, info, and the doc's provided w/ the JDBC driver. I didn't need this book!

The chapter on JDBC didn't even point out an actual Driver implementation, although it said there were two? Why not show specific examples w/ bread and butter, not fiction? The perl section proved informative, if you had no experience w/ DMI/DBD.

Overall, the book tries to touch on every aspect of relational db mgmt, the various layers of access, and other topics that didn't seem to belong in the book. 3 tier archs? Client/Server archs? Data processing? Maybe these would be best left in a general db mgmt book, relational design, designing 3 tier applications, or the like.

The title would indicate msql and MySql...but that was the sorry half off it!