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Programming Microsoft Office Access 2003 by Rick Dobson, Ph.D. Who is it for? The book is written for intermediate to advanced Access developers as well as SQL Server DBAs and developers. In addition, Access power users who want to grow their skills substantially will be able to benefit from this book. This edition of the book was changed substantially to optimize its value. While we continue to address advanced topics, a conscious effort was made to examine all content to verify its usefulness for practicing developers. As a result, some very esoteric topics were removed from the book (but they are still available through URL references found in the book). In addition, prior content was revised to emphasize its practicality, and new content was added to increase the overall relevance of the book to practicing developers. For example, you'll find new content on Access/Excel interoperability as well improved commentary on user-level security that can help you put this powerful tool to use easily and quickly. Despite the emphasis on being attentive to the needs of practicing developers, the book still addresses selected advanced topics when they are important to major trends. For example, we added new content on Access/SQL Server interoperability and re-organized some of the older content. Since Jet was placed on maintenance mode, the importance of learning how to tap SQL Server from Access has grown in importance. In addition, the new edition of the book includes a new chapter on Access/XML interoperability. XML offers a powerful new way to share Access data with others and to accept data from other applications that can export Access. |