Access Cookbook (O'Reilly Windows)
Author: Ken Getz, Andy Baron, Paul Litwin
List Price: $49.95
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ISBN: 0596000847
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (February, 2002)
Sales Rank: 43,220
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
A book for Access Developer & Power Users
Although I am an Access Developer (6 years), I have purchased no fewer than 15 - 20 books on Access 97, 2000, 2002.
Access Cookbook I purchased in late 2002 primarily for the first word at the top of the cover page - "Solutions".
True to the meaning, this book provides "how to " programming solutions that I have struggled with and needed over the past last 6 years.
Explanations are concise, and clear. And you get a CD with the examples which is worth many times the book costs.
I have other books by the authors; Developers Handbook for Acces 97 and 2000, and VBA for Developers. These books (1500 pages) primarly benefit the intermediate to advanced users.
The Access Cookbook should be a extremely helpful even to the beginning users (which we all were at some point).
Enjoy.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Finally! An Indispensable Guide!
O'Reilly has a series entitled "The Missing Manual" of books. This could rightfully be the "Missing Supplemental Guide" for Access, for this book opens up a lot of the lesser known tricks that are not covered in the standard text but are part of the problems database managers face all the time. Getz, et al take us beyond instruction into actual working code, and explains the idea behind it. The examples are practical - I've put a number of them to work in daily business already. And with the accompanying CD, you can see these functions in action through live database examples. The help in the book is not overly technical so only an Access Guru can follow and replicate it. It's written for people who work with Access and are comfortable with it but want to take things to the next level. The book is organized into thematic chapters so you can delve into what you want or need to know and get the full range. My copy is covered with post-it flags for different examples I want to refer to again and again. It is not often that a book can fill the void in instruction, but Getz and the Access Cookbook had done just that. User friendly, practical, and understandable make this book a permanent resident on the shelf only an arms length away.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Forget the negative stuff...this book f*cking rocks
This is one of my all-time favorite Access books (Next to Wrox's Beginning Access VBA). If you want a cool solution to common situations/problems, you can find it in this book. The search textbox for the listbox control code is one of my favorites! There are some really good ideas in here for user interfaces. This book is for folks who have some VBA experience, so it's really not a beginner's book. Get some VBA experience and you'll totally appreciate the value of this book!
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