More than three-quarters of Visual Basic programmers are involving in developing database applications. In this book, popular VB author Evangelos Petroutsos (who wrote the best-selling Mastering Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic 6 Developer's Handbook) takes beginning to intermediate VB programmers through all the steps of developing sophisticated database applications. The new Microsoft database access technology, ADO, is covered in depth, as is development of both two- and three-tier applications. The book offers coverage not just of Microsoft SQL Server but Oracle as well.