Plagues & Poxes: The Rise and Fall of Epidemic Disease

Whatever programs you develop, there's one task that you will almost always have to achieve - accessing and manipulating data. This data can be stored in many places, but large quantities of data that need to be frequently accessed are usually stored in relational databases such as SQL Server. Knowing how this data is structured, and how to access and update it, is therefore one of the most important programming tasks the professional programmer needs to learn. This book is designed to teach those essential skills quickly and painlessly to anyone programming in Microsoft's new C SHARP language. As well as database basics such as the SQL language used to communicate with databases, we cover the specifics of data access using C SHARP in depth. Data access in .NET is achieved through the ADO.NET classes; these are essentially a replacement for ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), and combine ADO's ease of use with powerful new features such as enhanced XML support. The core of this book consists of a thorough but easy-to-read tutorial to ADO.NET.

Dr. Bollet is a member of many prestigious scientific societies and societies devoted to medical history. He has been particularly interested in the comings and goings of diseases and the occurrence of new diseases, and many of his essays on that subject served as the basis of Plagues &Poxes. He has also studied intensively the medical aspects of the Civil War and nineteenth century medicine in general; his critically acclaimed book Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs was published in 2002.

Dr. Alfred Jay Bollet has had a long and distinguished medical career, with a focus in internal medicine and rheumatology. He has served on the faculty of several medical schools, was chairman of the departments of medicine at the Medical College of Georgia and the State University of New York in Brooklyn, and has been Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine for many years.