- Paperback: 720 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (28 Feb 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0596000847
- ISBN-13: 978-0596000844
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.8 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,109,783 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Donna Lamb, St. Louis Visual Basic User's Group, March 2002
The Access Cookbook is an excellent addition to any
Microsoft Access developer's library.
Microsoft Access developer's library.
Linda Roeder, Personal Web Pages, About.com
Even a beginner, with no programming experience, can learn to program using this book.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was looking for more than just a programming guide – I wanted something which would show me how to make the most of MS Access. This is a really well written book, with some excellent examples of the sorts of practical things that you’ll want to be able to do once you get into programming Access.
Each recipe is broken down into Problem, Solution and Discussion. Further more, the accompanying CD contains all the code in the examples and then some. The “Problems” are always pertinent, and really are the sorts of things you want to be able to do. The solutions are elegant but never overly fancy or complex. Hey – you can actually understand the code! The discussions chat about how it all works, some point out other areas which the techniques might be useful in, or expand the solutions. The book is divided in sections such as Queries, Forms, Reports, Distributing Applications, Printing, Data etc with some of the later chapters looking at stuff like Data Access Pages (DAP), SQL Server Data and the Windows API.
Getz, Litwin and Baron never lose sight of the intended readership – people who want to improve their MS Access skills. They never talk down to their readers, and they don’t assume an unreasonable level of competence.
Thoroughly recommend this book for IT professionals, or people interested in home programming.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Some really good coverage of some of the more esoteric things you might want to do with Microsoft Access. The book is really well written and is easy to follow. There are loads of ideas in the book as well - yes, you can copy the stuff if you want, but the ideas this book generates can set your applications in Access apart.
Thoroughly recommend this one
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I know that the 'Cookbook' series from O'Reilly tends to be heavy on bells and whistles and light on explanations, and the Access Cookbook is no different.
It makes Access dance in interesting ways, for sure...but despite having many unique problems to solve using Access, I found that the book simply didn't show me much of anything revolutionary. I did find that modifying some of the code allowed me to take shortcuts, but my problem with the examples is that they were not explained adequately, making them more difficult to adapt for the beginning/intermediate programmer than they would have been if more effort had been put into explaining what was going on.
Having said that, there are far worse Access books on the market than this one...and I found that the edition I use works on every version of Access that we have in the building, even Access 97, which is pretty impressive.
It makes Access dance in interesting ways, for sure...but despite having many unique problems to solve using Access, I found that the book simply didn't show me much of anything revolutionary. I did find that modifying some of the code allowed me to take shortcuts, but my problem with the examples is that they were not explained adequately, making them more difficult to adapt for the beginning/intermediate programmer than they would have been if more effort had been put into explaining what was going on.
Having said that, there are far worse Access books on the market than this one...and I found that the edition I use works on every version of Access that we have in the building, even Access 97, which is pretty impressive.
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This is a very good book if you have a grounding in access
This book is excellent. It gets straight to business and gives you a load of useful techniques and code to take your access database above and beyond. Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2003
Well worth it
An excellent companion for anyone wanting to do more than the bare minimum with MS Access. The book tries, and succeeds, in providing some really useful examples, complete with all... Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2003
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