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Summary: This book is a must for your library.
Review: Whether you are a beginning Access programmer, or a seasoned veteran in Access and Visual Basic, this book is a must for your library. Amazingly this book offers something for everyone. Although not designed for the casual end user, anyone interested in developing more sophisticated applications in Access will find this book to be a good guide. For the beginner it presents an orderly explanation of the basic principles of VBA programming with great clarity. For the intermediate to advanced programmer it also provides depth as well as an explanation of the new features in Access 2000. It is always a challenging task to keep up with all the new technology. For everyone it offers good examples of how to accomplish the task at hand. Without a doubt this is the best book currently available for Access 2000 programming.
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Summary: A good intro, esp. to new features in Access 2000.
Review: While Programming Microsoft Access 2000 is a title promising much to the serious developer, the book contains relatively little code and much survey. There is far too much of "You can do X,' and not enough 'Here's how to do X.'It is especially good in its coverage in general terms of features new to the "2000" edition of Access, but a little spotty. For example, an important new feature in Access 2000 is the slimmed-down SQL Server 7, under the name "MSDE." The author discusses SQL Server 7's Stored Procedures feature in detail. Still, there is no mention of the Triggers that, for example, enable automatically numbered fields. On the other hand, there are good code examples of how to use the new ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) feature. I toyed with returning the book, but decided to keep it as a good overview and supplement it with a more detailed work intended for the serious developer.
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