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Summary: Good book, bad software.
Review: It is, as expected, a good book from O'Reilly. But when one wants to get practical experience, problems arises since Access and/or Windows crashes all the time. I have now converted to Linux.
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Summary: The title says it all.
Review: Like the book, I'll keep this short and to the point. It contains everything even the lightly experienced will need to go a long way, including a useful appendix. Check out Roman's Object Oriented Programming and Design for down a to earth treatment of that subject.
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Summary: Not for the weak minded...
Review: Like the other hapless guy, I could not get the DAO to run under Access 2002. The cover says "access 2002" and yet there is no explanation of which references to assign so that the DAO code put forth in the book will run. After setting the references that Microsoft suggests, some of the code ran and some did not. Stevey-baby could've put a few paragraphs in the 3rd edition to save his more idiotic readers (I am their champion!) a few hours of tragic longing for the bygone days of DAO. Oh!
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Summary: DAO Disasters
Review: Like the other hapless guy, I could not get the DAO to run under Access 2002. The cover says "access 2002" and yet there is no explanation of which references to assign so that the DAO code put forth in the book will run. After setting the references that Microsoft suggests, some of the code ran and some did not. Stevey-baby could've put a few paragraphs in the 3rd edition to save his more idiotic readers (I am their champion!) a few hours of tragic longing for the bygone days of DAO. Oh!
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Summary: Hands down best book on MS Access
Review: Most 1,000 page books on Access show you a bunch of worthless screen shots and help you put together a rather useless "college" or "restaurant" database. The problem with these books? They never explain what a database is and why you might want to use one. Steven Roman is incredible at breaking the complex down to the understandable for the intelligent non-technical user. Forget dummies books, you are intelligent or you wouldn't be thinking about using Access! It is so much easier to use Access when you understand what a databse is. I can't give enough praise for this book.
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Summary: Extend your Access capabilities the RIGHT way.
Review: 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.
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Summary: Efficient coverage and integration of three topics
Review: New to database theory & design, SQL and VB, I was very surprised at how much I was able to learn in this relatively short book. The author's presentation of these three topics is neither over-simplified like many intro books on the market, nor overly-detailed like many classroom texts. A very clear account; recommended for anyone needing to get up to speed effectively with Access/VB.
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Summary: A very good book
Review: Professor Roman's style is clear and concise. It is nice to see that he has not fought shy of calling an algebra an algebra and a calculus a calculus. True to O'Reilly's tradition, the book is value for money. I was pleased to see that the book suggests standard texts in DB theory, the ones that would be used in a DB course in a reasonable university. This is certainly the book to buy, if one had to buy exactly one book on Access DB programming.
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Summary: A Gem
Review: So you're familiar with the Access interface and are comfortable with tables, forms, reports and macros. So what's next? Simply put, choose this book if you have little to no programming experience and you're ready to go to the next level with Access database development. This book is truly for the advanced Access user, but the novice VBA programmer. Having spent many frustrating hours with other books that claim to be for this audience, I can wholeheartedly recommend this one. I needed a "primer" in VBA before moving on to more advanced treatments, and this one fit the bill. For me, a bonus was the section on normalization. Well written and clear, it solidified and enhanced my understanding of sound database design . Steven Roman...thanks so very much!
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Summary: Response
Review: Thanks for your comments...reviews and literally hundreds of E-mails shows readers like the book very much! This book is NOT intended for the beginner. As stated clearly in the Preface, it is for users who have had some experience previous with the Access user interface and database concepts, such as tables and queries, although not necessarily with database design or programming...
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