MVP Book Suggestions

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Hi all,

I've posted a few times and been reading the boards for a while and I'm
scared by how much the MVPs know. But in a good way. So I'd like to pick
your brains on a book question.

Can you suggest any particular books that you feel Access programmers should
have? Maybe your top 5? Do you have a favourite publisher/series/author?
Maybe one is good for DB design and another for VBA?

I'm specifically working in A97, so if there were any gold-standard A97
books, feel free to pass those along as well.

Just curious to know what the pros use.

Thanks,
Jay
 
Hi,
certainly Access Developer's Handbook is number 1
Furthermore I learned a lot from F. Scott Barker's "Microsoft Access Power
Programming"
I think i read it in Access 95 time
 
Alex Dybenko said:
Hi,
certainly Access Developer's Handbook is number 1
Furthermore I learned a lot from F. Scott Barker's "Microsoft Access Power
Programming"
I think i read it in Access 95 time
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And the VBA Developer's Handbook from the same publisher, Sybex. Both
excellent in the 97 versions, maybe you could pick up cheaply on eBay.
 
SYBEX put out a book that was recommend to me as the "Bible". In fact,
in a conversation with Pat (who recommended it), she joked about today's
sermon on DAO being out of Chapter 14 starting with subsection 4.
The name of the book, if I recall was 'Access Developer's Handbook'. You
may also want to snoop around for books that discuss database design as
well as developing Office soultions - books that cover how to use VBA to
control Excel, Outlook, Word etc.
 
I'd also recommend that snoop around for various books on Requirements
Gathering, Data Modeling and Process Analysis. The three subjects should
give you a good background in the design side of things. Also, I would
look up information on truth tables. I was introduced to them in Digital
Electronics 10+ years ago and have quite surprisingly used them
countless times in figuring out assorted issues. (They're also kind of
fun to play with - at least for me, ok I am a geek.)

David H
 
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