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This covers a lot of ground quickly but lucidly... teach[s] you all the basics of building database applications in Access. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Williamsburg Macromedia User Group, April 16, 2002
I feel confidant that Access Database Design & Programming will serve as a handy reference. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pithy and excellent, 9 May 2003

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This review is from: Access Database Design & Programming (Nutshell Handbooks) (Paperback)

In contrast to so many programming books that are padded with chat and screen dumps, this one deals with the fundamental concepts. By all means buy another Access application design and programming book that leads you chapter by chapter through the construction steps, but own this one too. The author is an emeritus professor of maths and his intelligence is obvious in this nice text. In a world with ever more computer technologies and languages we need authors like Prof Roman to flag the important information. (Comments refer to 2nd edition)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Okay for abstract principles, poor on practicalities., 27 May 2000

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This review is from: Access Database Design & Programming (Nutshell Handbook) (Paperback)

This book is okay on presenting the principles of database layout, but doesn't live up to its front cover claim "what you really need to know to develop with access". The book explains some underlying DB concepts quite well, but the author clearly did not have a list of common, practical problems in mind when he put pen to paper.

My expectations from an O'Reilly book are high, and this book doesn't match up. Three indicative irritations were:

* The section on Jet RecordSet properties, which ends "Of course, getting documentation on these properties is another matter. Let me know if you find any."

* The bit on manipulating dates: "If you need to manipulate dates or times in your programs, you should probably spend some time with the Access VBA help file. (Start by looking under Date Data Type)"

* No information on using autonumbered fields, which didn't even make the index. If you want to know which code is best to recover the data you just entered into an autonumbered row, you probably won't be able to work it out from this book.

The book is mainly written in terms of the earlier Microsoft DAO technology, with a single chapter on ADO tacked on. My (2nd ed) version does not address MSDE or Access 2000 specifics, of course. The language used is VBA, so issues that crop up with other languages, like VBScript's lack of typing, are not covered. Writing with later upsizing in mind is also not addressed, although some differences between SQL-92 and Access SQL are mentioned in passing. There is also little indication of how complete the SQL information is.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Difficult reading!, 21 Sep 2000

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This review is from: Access Database Design & Programming (Nutshell Handbook) (Paperback)

Perhaps it is unfair of me to critique Mr Roman's book: I hung on until chapter 4 and then gave up. Steven Roman appears to be a talented mathematician but his sentence construction and command of the English language is, at best, tiring. I was attracted by the promise of some formal database theory (I did my Computer Science degree over 10 years ago!). Alas, there are many other books on database theory which are much better written.

I would have continued through to the Access 2000 implementation stage had it not been for Steven Roman's comments about DAO versus ADO. I got the impression he thinks ADO is an irritating distraction introduced by Microsoft, and DAO is certainly the model to stay with. I am disinclined to read an author's work on (the essential) ADO if his heart is not in it.

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