James,

>Well, that is what has been of concern to me. The book you mentioned as well as another have been on order for some time at Amazon.

You'll find SOME of the same material as white papers on Rick's site at www.west-wind.com.

I also recommend that you download the demo version of Web Connection and read through the first few sections of the docs, or just read'em online at:
http://www.west-wind.com/webconnection/docs/

Also take a close look in the docs at the wwSQL class, which is a wrapper around SQL Passthrough.