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Title: Access 2000 Developer's Handbook, Volume 2: Enterprise Edition by Paul Litwin, Ken Getz, Mike Gilbert ISBN: 0-7821-2372-4 Publisher: Sybex Inc Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must have for MsAccess programmers
Comment: Daily employed subjects, very good explaineds and an useful INDEX to found what you need. That is aplicable to the whole serie "Access xxx Developer's Handbook". I own all of them!. The best books about MsAccess.
Rating: 5
Summary: DAO/ADO Why didn't they use some different letters?
Comment: Microsoft had the guts to simply stop DAO code in place (3.6 is it) and it was such an ugly mess to use to write client server applications that its just as well. Now there's ADO, which is like RDO (which you could only get by buying Visual Basic, Professional Edition, but now RDO is no longer being developed or improved), and ADO is also like PowerBuilder in its syntax and function, primarily in using a universal and extremely flexible connection object to link to the data source.
The authors of this book (and the companion Volume One) attempt to help the average developer make the transition from DAO to the new ADO syntax and as such the books are a bit longer than they would be if they were only explaining the new ADO syntax and the example ADO code in the book.
There needs to be a more sophisticated ten volume work (by the same authors, as their writing style and the usefulness of their examples simply has no equal in the ACCESS realm) that covers the entire Client Server design process.
Now that you can get MSDE (which is SQL 7.0 for all intents and purposes) for free with Acess2000, there is no reason that any multi-user application should use the Jet for storing the data files. The drawback of having to learn how to use MSDE/SQL7.0 as a data server is really not that bad, the main hassle is that you don't get the nice window display of the MSDE objects (tables, users, functions, etc) that comes with SQL7.0 and also there is no interactive SQL 'window' in Access that would allow you to write and run SQL7.0 SQL strings to build your data objects, etc. But surely someone will create a shareware program that provides most of this information, and it would be one of the few shareware programs I'd actually purchase.
In a word, don't expect this book to provide all the exact code you'd need for a professional application. These authors did not attempt to create a cookbook to be used for direct use, rather it is a comprehensive first step to learning the new ADO system of connecting ACCESS to a server backend (with many examples of similar DAO code, many times both sets of code are used in the same function, with comments to allow one or the other to be 'turned on/off'). I sure wish I'd had this two years ago when I began writing a client/server program, as it would have saved a tremendous amount of time and helped me make a solid, quick, and coherent application in a very short time.
One last note, the little 'self attaching' subform that implements record navigation is worth the price of the entire book (its in Volume One, but you can't, logically, buy this book without also buying Volume One, they refer to each other a great deal and together they are quite comprehensive) and its just one of the little goodies on the CD-ROM. By so meticulously explaining how this subform 'links' itself to the events (called 'sinking the events') of the 'parent' form its placed in, the authors give you enough information to try this same technique in other ways.
This is the strength of this two volume set, how it educates rather than attempting to be a cookbook of professional code for enterprise applications. There are no other ACCESS2000 books by other publishers that even come close to the level of utility and clarity of these authors. One wishes they'd now write the SQL7.0 'backend' Handbook as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Enterprise Book Ever!
Comment: Anyone who's ever purchased one of the Access Developer Handbooks will find this incredible Enterprise Edition is a must have! The code samples on the CD alone are worth the cost of the book. The writing is clear and thorough and the samples are excellent and (so far) bug free.
Data Access Pages, ADPs, MSDE, ADO, Multi-User Issues, Security, it's all here. Thanks to Litwin, Getz, & Gilbert for yet another great book!
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Title: Access 2000 Developer's Handbook Volume 1: Desktop Edition by Paul Litwin, Ken Getz, Mike Gilbert ISBN: 0782123708 Publisher: Sybex Inc Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Beginning Access 2000 VBA by Robert Smith, Dave Sussman ISBN: 0764543830 Publisher: Wrox Pub. Date: 03 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Access Developer's Guide to SQL Server by Mary Chipman, Andy Baron ISBN: 0672319446 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 13 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: VBA Developer's Handbook, 2nd Edition by Ken Getz, Mike Gilbert ISBN: 0782129781 Publisher: Sybex Books Pub. Date: 25 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Access 2000 VBA Handbook by Susann Novalis ISBN: 0782123244 Publisher: Sybex Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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