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Access 2000 VBA Handbook

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This book is intended for VBA beginners, not Access beginners. Make sure you are comfortable using Access (User level suggested Intermediate/Advanced) before thinking about this book. When you want to take your Access databases to the next level with some programming (for example, automating the process of running 4 update queries with all alerts turned off), then it's time to grab this book. Readers with some programming background will find this book much easier than those without, but if you have patience and time anyone can learn from this book. If you have VB/VBA knowledge already, including some ADO/DAO basics, you might find this book too boring or easy. Jump up to Access 2000 Developer's Handbook Set, ISBN 0782123716.

This book has frustrated me to no end. It jumps from subject to subject with no warning. For example the book explains a little bit of the architecture, then says that an "Access Project" has a different architecture. I thought I was working on an Access Project, oops, much later that I discovered that, an Access Application is not the same thing as an Access Project. Thanks for telling me. And for a good portion of the book, there is no sample code. You learn things by chance, and heaven help you if you try to find something in the index (for example, "subform" is not in the index). Did I learn? Yes. But only because I was taking over a project that had already been written, so the book supplemented the code I was deciphering. Admittedly, part of the problem is in Access itself - too much behind the scenes processing which requires no code. Access also has a number of different interfaces ... I had hoped this book would explain when to use which one and why. No such luck.

For a some time I've been looking for a book which will be simple enough to help me start programing with VBA for Aplication. When I found this un my local bookstore, I hoped it will be the one. Well it's a pretty good book. It cover most of the topic's needed for programing in VBA. But it does'nt have one thing which is most inportant (in my opinion). Like a most of other books on this subjects, this one explain items from VBA for aplication in randomly select order. So it does'nt show you how to start building an aplication from very begining, and it does'nt help you if somethings go wrong in your leyerning from your book. I hope in future this writer will give more space to explanations about possible mistake that one can make in programming.

This book really stands out from the crowd. Most VBA texts are written by great programmers who are terrible teachers. Not in this case - Using VBA to unlock the power of MS Access is thoroughly and clearly explained - from concepts such as database design and objects to JET, DAO/ADO and beyond. The author shows how to do everything that you can do with Macros, how to do many things that you can't do without VB and then how to most efficiently do all of them! Most useful is the clear way in which the book shows how to perform tasks efficiently in interactive (Forms) and automated (DAO/ADO Recordset manipulation) ways and when to choose each- this book will remain an invaluable tool in my library and be referenced often.

I am a self taught Access developer, and i was looking for a good Access VBA book, that could help me with all those doubts and problems that come along when we try to take it a little further...
Well... this is the book! The author explains everything in a very understandable way. It was really helpful and, certainly my best buy in the last months...

The book illustrates data that is not in the referenced database and discusses information in a database that is on the supplied CD. However, the author does not reveal the password for the database for an additional 20 pages. That database is also encrypted so that it is virtually useless since the author discusses making changes to it.

Very poorly written.

I must agree with other reviewers. In spite of a good knowledge of Access the reading of this book does not help to write practical applications, and is very frustrating. The author jumps from topic to topic and gives very little code that can be used in real life situations. I would qualify this book as no more than a broad and theoretical overview.

Good book. Easy to find the answers to my questions and get back to work. Good examples and written with clear explanations that get to the point.

Good Day.

If you have already spent time zipping around in Access, trying to make it do stuff, this book is a Godsend. Excellent drill-down into the guts of Access, including high-level overview of how Access is put together and how it "thinks". This is a top-notch, practical guide to mastering Access (at least mastering it to the point where you can crack open the Access 2000 Developer's Handbook (Getz/Litwin) and get it. Easily 5 stars *****. b.

There was a lot of material in this book, but it has nearly all presented elsewhere better and more clearly. This basically reads like a book that somebody put together by cutting and pasting from other books on the market. There was not any kind of help with problems that users would encounter in the real world.
I would say this book is about 80% filler. Not worth the money.