advice on books for christmas gifts

[Willy]

Someone I know wants access books for Christmas. They use it all the
time in their job and are serious about it, so beginner books are a
waste of time. Intermediate and up only. I bought the Inside Out
book by Viescas (sp?) for them and also another by the same author
(Building Applications or something like that) based on
reccomendations. I was wondering about the Developer's Handbook, it
looks like a good one for even advanced users, but it says 2002, so I
do not know if it is new enough or not to be worth it. Any other
non-beginner books you can reccomend?

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

Most if not all of the ADH 2002 will still be relevant, and it is an
excellent intermediate to advanced Access developer book.

For intermediate to advanced Access VBA programming, Rick Dobson's books,
published by Microsoft Press are good. I personally prefer his Access 2002
book to the Access 2003 book. Rick tends to be an 'early adopter' of new
technologies, so you'll find, for example, a lot of ADO and very little DAO
in his recent books. Although I mostly use DAO with Access myself, I find
the different perspective interesting and informative - after all, it's not
as though there wasn't plenty of DAO stuff available elsewhere!

Also look out for Steven Roman's 'Access Database Design and Programming'
and Rebecca Riordan's 'Designing Effective Database Systems'.

 

[Guest]

Check out libraryxtreme.com and click on XTREME SEARCH. Search Amazon for
great books on Access. There's one - 'Building Access Applications' that
looks like a great resource they would appreciate and it's current.

/RA

 

[Tony Toews]

Someone I know wants access books for Christmas. They use it all the
time in their job and are serious about it, so beginner books are a
waste of time. Intermediate and up only. I bought the Inside Out
book by Viescas (sp?) for them and also another by the same author
(Building Applications or something like that) based on
reccomendations. I was wondering about the Developer's Handbook, it
looks like a good one for even advanced users, but it says 2002, so I
do not know if it is new enough or not to be worth it. Any other
non-beginner books you can reccomend?

I'd sure go for the Developers Handbooks. All the code and examples
in there will still be very relevant to A2003.

Tony
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