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Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Access 2003 (Special Edition Using) | 
| Author: Roger Jennings
Publisher: Que
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 81709
Media: Paperback
Pages: 1536
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 2.2
ISBN: 0789729520
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7565
UPC: 029236729523
EAN: 9780789729521
ASIN: 0789729520
Publication Date: September 21, 2003
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Amazon.com Review
Billed as "The only Access 2003 book you need," Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Access 2003 is a comprehensive reference book that may well live up to its slogan. It covers all aspects of Microsoft's small but powerful database environment, from user-level features to Transact-SQL, Active Data Objects (ADO), and InfoPath. While you probably will want a separate reference for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), or whatever programming environment you're using, this book indeed comprehensive in terms of Access 2003 itself. Coverage of T-SQL is particularly helpful, thanks to the author's extensive use of illustrative examples in those sections. Further, he takes care to help readers prepare for the imminent retirement of the Jet database engine and the required migration for Microsoft SQL Server. Roger Jennings' coverage of the user-level part of Access (the editing, formatting, and design functions, and the wizards that make them easier to use) is standard Que fare, full of carefully indexed procedures and lots of hints and tips that call attention to potential problems and obscure capabilities. Later chapters--the ones that will be of greater interest to people doing application-development work--rely more heavily (and appropriately so) on code snippets and explanations of what they do. Even in the more programmer-oriented sections, though, there are numbered steps to follow in order to achieve desired effects, such as exporting data to XML and setting up an InfoPath form. --David Wall Topics covered: User- and developer-level traits and capabilities of Microsoft Access 2003. Emphasis falls on relational database design, data entry and validation techniques, form design, sorting and reporting, CrossTabs and PivotTables, and Transact-SQL. There's coverage of the differences between the Jet database engine and the Microsoft SQL Server database environment, and notes on developing applications for both.
Product Description
Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Access 2003 is a comprehensive reference for all the features of Access 2003. This edition adds new chapters on collaboration with Microsoft SharePoint Team Server, and creating or consuming XML Web Services, both of which are hot topics. The XML chapter includes Access 2003port/import features. The bookon follows the development process for typical Access database applications. Detailed, step-by-step instructions with icons guide those who are new to Access through table design, data addition, importing data from external sources, query design and execution, and designing data entry forms and printed reports. Chapters on advanced form and report design emphasize data-entry efficiency and presentation clarity.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 I found this book to be a bit confusing March 13, 2007
N. Siwabut
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The idea is good to try to introduce ACCESS fundtionality through building up some real application (he uses that Northwind sample).
However, I found that it is inadequately explained. Or in many instances, missing the explanation all together. On Chapter 26 - a basic intro of InfoPATH - a good attempt that fail miserably !! I thought he would explains how InfoPath would be integrated as an entry FORM for ACCESS Apps but it was just a basic intro of InfoPATH.
Actaully I want to give only 1 star, but seeing that some examples from the CD could be made useful - so I give him one more star for that.
 Horrible Book I hvae ever Seen February 24, 2006
Sanjay Joshi (US)
4 out of 19 found this review helpful
I wish I could select rating for this book lower that one star. This is a horrible book I have ever seen in my life. This
book Is poorly indexed . I would not recommend anyone to go for this book. I serched google for my acess problems when I found, it was impossible to get it from this book. I can give you one example 'how to right update-query' . Someone go and look in this book , it's horrible to understand what the author is saying insted searh in google ' Update-Query in MS Acess' you will get nice explanatory answers.
Again minus 10 Rating for this book
 Manual December 17, 2005
David C. Zenkel
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Easy to read. Already used on one project. Just another manual in an excellent series.
A lot of how, not enough why March 15, 2005
Nora Brown (Chicago IL USA)
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
This book is not for beginners, and may not be for anybody. It is poorly indexed, making it very difficult to find a desired topic. It is also largely based on step-by-step examples, without enough explanation of why something works the way it does. In other words, plenty of detail on specific, pre-determined tasks, but scant exploration of broad topics and ideas.
 Unfinished Editing May 11, 2004
21 out of 23 found this review helpful
Although this book is very good, as are most Que books, it appears that the book wasn't totally re-done for Access 2003.There are numerous sections in the book that discuss the new features of Access 2002 (not 2003).
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