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Title: Alison Balter's Mastering Access 2002 Desktop Development (With CD-ROM) by Alison Balter ISBN: 0-672-32101-7 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Examples!
Comment: I've followed Allison's books on Microsoft Access ever since Version 1.0. Alison, Getz, and Dobson are in my opinion, the 3 top Microsoft Access authors. No one else comes close. I particularly like her excellent VBA presentation / review. Allison reviews Visual Basic by coding specific examples for every concept. As the student steps through code, they really learn to understand what is going on. The clarity of her writing inspires the self-learning to feel they can go on and get it!
A great teacher!
I'll be using her book for the summer class I'm teaching at U C Irvine Extension - Access - II.
And if I get a chance to write a level III class, I'd use her Enterprise book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book for anyone who wants to advance Access skills!
Comment: A really helpful book- took my Access knowledge to the "next level". This book helped me develop my career as an access advanced user . Book provides the knowledge to perform routines that would seen otherwise impossible in addition to just some really cool things in Access/VB. The book is easy to read and while the examples take some time to grasp they are easy to apply to real life databases. The book serves as a reference at work and home study guide. I absolutely recommend it for anyone who would like to become an "Access Master"
Rating: 1
Summary: No info on macros? Incomplete book!
Comment: After devoting 40 pages to how to build a table, and 42 pages to how to build a query (yawn) the author decides to completely ignore the topic of macros. When introducing VBA, she spends 3 pages explaining why she feels developing in modules is superior than using macros.
While some of her points are valid (and others are not) it is still WRONG to write a 1300 page book on a program and ignore one of the more important tasks in the program. Macros are more easily understood by users who have to work with the database day in and day out. If you are developing small applications to be used by small numbers of people who are familiar with Access, macros are easier for them to understand than VBA code. Macros can run a series of queries in a specific order to create new tables, update records, etc. They can automate tasks for users, and users like them because they can understand them.
I can't believe this book was even printed without this information. Balter's editors should have dragged her to a dark alleyway to make it clear that in spite of her personal bias against them, customers of this book deserve to have information on macros included in the text. The rest of the book may be decent - but this glaring hole in the information is unforgiveable.
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Title: Alison Balter's Guide to Access 2002 Enterprise Development with CDROM by Alison Balter ISBN: 0672321130 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 14 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Access Version 2002 Core Reference by Rick Dobson ISBN: 0735614059 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Access Cookbook (O'Reilly Windows) by Ken Getz, Andy Baron, Paul Litwin ISBN: 0596000847 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Access 2002 Desktop Developer's Handbook by Paul Litwin, Ken Getz, Mike Gunderloy ISBN: 0782140092 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 10 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Access 2002 Developer's Handbook Set by Paul Litwin, Ken Getz, Mike Gunderloy ISBN: 0782140114 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 14 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $99.98 |
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