Customer Reviews

Building Access Web Sites

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I was very disappointed in this book. It gives a brief summary of the workings of Access, which I already knew. However, it is very skimpy on the technical details involved in publishing a database to the web. There has to be better books out there, somewhere.

This is a GREAT book! I was asked by my boss to figure out what it would take to place our inventory database on the Web for our suppliers to access. This book not only showed me a number of ways to do that, but gave me some great tips. This is NOT a book to buy if you want to learn how to do MS Access programming. It clearly states it though in the front matter. But, if you already know how to access an MS Access database and want to learn how to couple an MS Access database with a Web application, then this is a "must buy" book.

This is an excellent book to give one a broad based understanding of how to build a Web application accessing a MS Access database. It assumes a basic level of understanding of MS Access, so don't look to buy this book if you want to learn to write a SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS; table. Do buy this book, however, if you want to understand the many ways that a database can be accessed from a WEb application.

This is one of the best technical books I have ever read. The numerous examples provided are right on the money, and the descriptions are more than enough to illuminate the topics presented.

Although I knew quite a bit about MS Access programming before I read this book, I still learned more. I didn't read it though to learn about MS Access, I read it to learn about how to integrate a MS Access database into a Web application.

My only wish for this book is that MS Press would have published it --- they need more high quality books like this to be published under their press!

I agree with EVB on both content and quality. Most of the book covers basic Access info and is so badly written as to be nearly unreadable. Apparently, the publishers were so greedy to get yet one more Internet book for market that they forgot to assign an editor.

This book does a decent job of introducing the theory of HTML and CGI development, particularly as related to Web-enabled databases. It provides a laundry list of products on the market. However, it barely mentions MS Access at all. It seems like a general book about Web databases with a few pages about Access thrown in.

It provides no particulars on linking a database with a web server. Basically it says "go write yourself a custom CGI to access your database, in the programming language of your choice."

The reason this book is particularly unhelpful is that it is of no help to the beginning/intermediate Access developer looking to provide Web access for their databases. It suggests developing a CGI to connect to Access databases. Shockingly, there is NO mention of the most obvious ways to connect to Access databases--ASP and IDC/HTX pages. Nor does it mention the easiest way to Web-enable an Access database--the Publish to the Web Wizard. What is really needed is a book that explains the intricacies of the Web Wizard and ASP as it relates to Access development.

Contrary to what the review says, this book has 481 pages, including index.

As a beginner, I found this book to be extremely helpful in explaining how to incorporate a database into my web page. The chapters flowed logically and described every topic clearly. The author anticipates every question the reader might have and answers them even before they enter the reader's mind. A very well-written and comprehensive piece.

I have read many technical books, but this is one that I found to be very valuable. The author does a very credible job of describing in enough detail to make sense to me how to build a Web application in a number of different ways using a MS Access back-end. Although it was "light" on Access-specific code examples, I didn't buy this book to learn how to code in MS Access. I bought it to learn how to build a Web application that required access to a MS Access database. I'm keeping this book locked up in my office because I don't want it to grow feet.

To be succinct, this book will not help you build web sites using Access. It has a small chapter on using Hahtsite to connect to an Access database. It has more data on using cgi programs to access back end databases from HTML forms. Although, there is nothing about actually creating a cgi program. It has virtually nothing about really using Access on a website. This book was a total disappointment and a complete waste of money.

I found this book very disappointing since there seem to be so few books geared toward designing web databases specifically with Access 97. 80% of the book's material covers everything but Acess database design. The CD is nothing but a collection of outdated shareware from various vendors.