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Title: Access Database Design & Programming (3rd Edition) by Steven Roman ISBN: 0-596-00273-4 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (36 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Extend your Access capabilities the RIGHT way.
Comment: Most books on Access are over a thousand pages long, and teach you bad habits like designing your database to fit your forms, not vice-versa. This book, like other titles from the publisher, is information-packed and concise. Unlike other Access books, this title teaches you to resist the urge to bind (pun intended) your tables too tightly with your forms. Instead, in a very easy-to-understand way, it teaches you to design your database well first, and then take advantage of the programming tools that are part of Access to manipulate your data. Other books emphasize form design over all else, teaching an approach that invariably paints the budding database designer into a corner sooner or later. The reader who uses the approach taught in this book will design extensible databases that look a lot like the ones the n-tier SQL Server and Oracle gurus put together. I've helped colleagues with databases, and then urged them to get a copy of this book for themselves -- You know, "Give a man a fish, ..." Learn to design Access databases the RIGHT way and avoid wasting your time plowing through yet another cinder block-sized tome - buy this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Access database for the mathematically minded
Comment: In Access Database Design & Programming, the author uses very mathematical and academic language. The database design part of the book is focused on the mathematical theory of relational databases. The programming part of the book is a reference work to programming with VBA.
All parts of the relational database in Access will be mathematically defined and proven. It will have a name you most probably will find confusing, and far from what you are used to from the Access interface. Apparently the author follows the naming standards established in the academic world to prove the algebra. After all, he is a professor of Mathematics !
In the programming part of the book you will be introduced to the DDL, DML and DCL components included in Access. Also, these components will probably be completely unknown to you, if you have no previous programming experience. Further, the book makes use of DAO as opposed to ADO.
The book is perfect for someone, who has completed courses in Computer Science, Programming and Algebra, or with the equivalent knowledge and a mathematical/academic way of thinking. They will be able to read through the book in a fast pace, and immediately make use of Access at a high level.
If your background is different, I would recommend another approach to database design and programming. For database design, I recommend "Inside Relational Databases" by Whitehorn and Marklyn (ISBN 354076092X). To learn programming I recommend "Learn to Program with VB 6" by John Smiley (ISBN1902745000).
This book is going to split its readers in two groups: The mathematically and academic minded who will love the book for its concise language. And the "grass roots" among the Access users/developers, who will be looking for database samples or VBA code snippets to learn from, and find none.
You will probably ask yourself if you need to know this much theory and detail. But remember, a relational database operates purely on mathematics. It is difficult and tiresome to learn, but your reward will be well worth the effort.
Rating: 4
Summary: DAO & quantum physics
Comment: I find some of the complaints about this books to be interesting. First of all, I have always liked this book (refering to 2nd edition) for its concise simplicity (I wonder if the person who compares it to quantum physics has actually ever studied quantum physics?). And secondly I suspect that those who complained about dao do not realize that to use DAO one must first establish a reference to it in the vba window (Tools, References, check "Microsoft DAO x.xx Object Library). The program does not automatically provide reference to both dao and ado because of the overlap of objects in their respective libraries. Anyway, it is an excellent book.
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Title: Access Cookbook (O'Reilly Windows) by Ken Getz, Andy Baron, Paul Litwin ISBN: 0596000847 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: VB and VBA in a Nutshell: The Languages by Paul Lomax ISBN: 1565923588 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition by Steven Roman ISBN: 0596003595 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: VBA Developer's Handbook, 2nd Edition by Ken Getz, Mike Gilbert ISBN: 0782129781 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 25 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Access 2002 Developer's Handbook Set by Paul Litwin, Ken Getz, Mike Gunderloy ISBN: 0782140114 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 14 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $99.98 |
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