Book about database application development?

[Wolfgang Keller]

Hello,

does anyone know of a good book that about development of database 
applications?

Preferrably language independent, if that's not available something 
"readable" as the example language would be nice (Delphi is ok for me, not 
any kind of C-dialect including Java and C#). Unfortunately there seems to be 
nothing dedicated to database applications with Python.

I'm especially interested in such practical topics as e.g. how to implement 
things such that the resulting application doesn't show the hourglass for 
minutes on every mouseclick.

And, btw; "W** applications" are totally irrelevant for me.

TIA,

Sincerely,

Wolfgang Keller

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