Reviews for Building Visual FoxPro 5 applications

The average rating for Building Visual FoxPro 5 applications based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-12 00:00:00 Elizabeth Schafer The book covers the data warehousing field completely - giving a 360 degree view to a reader. However it is not very readable. The ideas are expressed in a difficult way and you can not figure out the author's higher level of flow of thought while going through one specific chapter. There are too many diagrams. Nearly all are useless. They do not add any further clarity to the topic or the situation . If the topic will mention about a simple data flow from A to B then it will refer to a diagram which will have two rectangle boxes connected with an arrow and that is it. A mention of a slight modification in the same date flow will result in referring to a new diagram. This way of explanation frustrates the reader especially because mostly the diagrams are not placed on the same page where they are being referred to. You generally have to flip 2-3 pages to reach to the diagram page then you flip back to the topic page to discover that another reference is being made to another diagram 4-5 pages away. This frustrated me so much that I later skipped noticing the diagrams. The book does explains a lot of things around data warehousing but it lacks the tactic to mesmerize a reader .It is definitely not for a newbie as it requires good knowledge of the field to be able to grasp the abstractness of the ideas. If you can somehow remove the repetitive mentioning of differences between OLTP and DWH and the statement that DWH can not be build in one cycle, the book will literally shrink to half of its current size.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-03-03 00:00:00 Susan Randolph 3.5/5 I read this cover to cover, which was A Choice, and it was pretty good with a few caveats: * Inmon loves himself some absolutely useless diagrams * certain chapters had vastly different audiences * some of the book felt much more outdated than other parts Overall though, I think if you've got a relational data warehouse, this is the best book I've come across to help you wrangle it and figure out where to go and what to do. I read this over time, mostly in the morning or while waiting for large processes to run, taking notes so that I can review them later and then turn that into actionable items.