Access 95 Unleashed [Paperback]

Dwayne Gifford (Author, Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1996 | Series: Unleashed

This guide to creating powerful Access applications presents tips and secrets, explaining everything from the basics through advanced programming.

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The ultimate guide to creating powerful Access applications! Filled with powerful tips and secrets, readers will master everything from the basics through advanced programming. - Provides information on all the essentials, plus topics like programming, client/server features, ODBC integration, and crossover to other Microsoft applications

- Complete coverage of tables and data, forms and reports, Wizards, OLE, DDE, graphs, and graphics

- CD-ROM contains utilities, tools, and applications

Product Details

• Paperback: 1008 pages
• Publisher: Sams Publishing (January 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672307855
• ISBN-13: 978-0672307850
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,915,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Great idea gone bad, March 30, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Access 95 Unleashed (Paperback)

The concept is a good one: enlist the support of multiple Access 95 experts, and ask each to write a chapter or two. Optimally, each author would be an expert in the section he or she composes, and the whole would be a single source for all Access 95 questions.

The book falls flat on several counts. First, it would appear that the scope of each author's section was ill-defined. Sections that should have been complimentary clashed, and others overlapped significantly. I was left with the sense that those organizing the material gave few guidelines to the authors, and that the authors were completely unaware of the subjects covered in other sections. Some topics were covered again and again, while others were conspicuously avoided. In a book of this size and directed at an advanced audience, one should not expect to encounter so many declarations that a subject is beyond the scope of the book.

Secondly, the book lacked a coherent style. While a reader expects that different authors will have different voices, some attempt should be made in a collection such as this one to organize the material into a coherent whole. I found the blatant stylistic differences between sections enromously distracting.

Finally, the writing and editing were miserable. While a few authors managed to construct readable and even mildly entertaining sections, most displayed such poor writing skills that their work verged on completely unintelligible. The experience was in fact so maddening that I drafted a list of the authors who irked me most and all of the editors associated with the book so that I can be sure to avoid them in the future (a first for me).

In short, the book was an enormous disappointment, and ranks comfortably among the worst computer books I have read. A wonderful idea, poorly organized and poorly written.