Microsoft Jet Database Engine Programmers Guide (Microsoft Professional Editions) [Paperback]

Dan Haught (Author), Microsoft Corporation (Author), Microsoft Press (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1572313420 | ISBN-13: 978-1572313422 | Publication Date: January 1, 1997 | Edition: 2nd

This is a comprehensive, must-have volume for everyone working with the powerful database engine used in Microsoft Access, Excel, Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Office 97, Developer Edition. The book gives complete guidance, including examples, for reusing code in many products, for combining products into custom database applications, and for using all aspects of Microsoft Jet. The CD-ROM contains all of the book's samples, useful tools, and utilities.

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This is the official technical reference on Microsoft Jet, the powerful database engine used in Microsoft Access and Micosoft Visual Basic for Windows 95. If you write code that creates and manipulates a database in one of these products, you can easily use that same code in the other, or use both products together to create custom database applications. You'll learn what Jet is, how to use it, and how it compares to other database engines. Each chapter includes a simple Visual Basic program that is built upon to illustrate points throughout the discussion.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 756 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; 2nd edition (January 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572313420
• ISBN-13: 978-1572313422
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,047,736 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MUST READ BOOK FOR VB/ACCESS PROGRAMMERS, March 19, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Jet Database Engine Programmers Guide (Microsoft Professional Editions) (Paperback)

THIS IS A MUST HAVE BOOK. 756 pages of Jet/Access secrets. This is the "tell all" book about Jet / Access. If you want to know the down and dirty secrets... this is the book to get. It is VERY READABLE, goes into great detail. The authors should be commended for doing such a fine job. It includes a wall poster of all the Access objects. It includes a CD full of source code and white papers. It details the crazy locking logic of Access. Want to store things in the database object, rather than an Access table? This book will tell you how. Want to know about which bytes in the MDB contain the lock information... this book tells all. NOT ONLY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.... BUT "MUST HAVE". John Dunbar. VB Solutions EZine.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I wish I'd found this book sooner, October 11, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Jet Database Engine Programmers Guide (Microsoft Professional Editions) (Paperback)

By all rights, the information here should be inclued in the other VBA books, but it's not. After buying too many books on Access and VBA programming, I've finally found a resource that gives more than a cursory look at Microsoft Jet database and programming considerations. Maybe if you already know what you're doing and don't need the Jet shortcuts, bound objects, etc. this book is unnecessary, but if you want to do simple multi-user database applications, this book is essential. Clueless about locking in a multiuser environment and Jet vs. Direct ODBC access? This'll put you on the right track. Not a lot of programming examples, but those are easy to find elsewhere.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DAO examples that make sence!, June 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Jet Database Engine Programmers Guide (Microsoft Professional Editions) (Paperback)

Too few Microsoft Press books make this much sence . Clear, concise examples and a little theory. Cut and paste code from the companion CD, change a few objects and it works. Great!