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Access Hacks Tips & Tools for Wrangling Your Data

By Ken Bluttman
First Edition April 2005
Pages: 351
Series: Hacks
ISBN 10: 0-596-00924-0 | ISBN 13: 9780596009243
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)

Book description

With this valuable guide, experienced users of Microsoft Access can finally take their database skills to the next level. Access Hacks offers direct, hands-on tips and tools that help relieve the frustrations of users struggling to master the program's various complexities. Also ideal for beginners looking to grasp the fundamentals of this popular database management program.
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As part of the Microsoft Office suite, Access has become the industry's leading desktop database management program for organizing, accessing, and sharing information. But taking advantage of this product to build increasingly complex Access applications requires something more than your typical how-to book. What it calls for is Access Hacks from O'Reilly. This valuable guide provides direct, hands-on solutions that can help relieve the frustrations felt by users struggling to master the program's various complexities. For experienced users, Access Hacks offers a unique collection of proven techniques and tools that enable them to take their database skills and productivity to the next level. For Access beginners, it helps them acquire a firm grasp of the program's most productive features. A smart collection of insider tips and tricks, Access Hacks covers all of the program's finer points. Among the multitude of topics addressed, it shows users how to:

work with Access in multi-user environments
utilize SQL queries
work with external data and programs
integrate Access with third-party products

Just imagine: a learning process without the angst. Well, Access Hacks delivers it with ease, thanks to these down-and-dirty techniques not collected together anywhere else. Part of O'Reilly's best-selling Hacks series, Access Hacks is based on author Ken Bluttman's two decades of real-world experience in database programming and business application building. It's because of his vast experiences that the book is able to offer such a deep understanding of the program's expanding possibilities.

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First Edition: April 2005
Series: Hacks
ISBN: 0-596-00924-0
Pages: 351
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 1 Reviews)

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Awful Book, November 27 2007

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Submitted by Los [Respond | View]

I am not much of an Access expert, but bought this book after using the excell hacks book which is excellent. This Access hacks book doesn't provide any "how to" examples. It lacks a great deal of examples and focus more on content. I wouldn't recommend this book at all.

Nice tips and tricks, March 30 2007
Submitted by Mervyn [Respond | View]

Very good book, excellant tips that helped to reduced some hours of research, I used it quite often that the pages is starting to get a bit dirty at the edges.
Is there a book 2 of more tips and tricks up your sleeve.
Thanks

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Media reviews
"An essential recipe book for anyone who makes more than casual use of Access. Very well written, and even the expert-rated hacks are presented in a comprehensible form. Excel users should also get a lot out of the hacks."
-- Major Keary, Book Notes

"If you're an experienced Access user, there's no doubt you'll find something useful in this book. It's packed full of so many useful tips and techniques that there's guaranteed to be something you don't already know! ... This book is, hands down, one of my favorite books on Microsoft Access."
--Mike Chapple, Databases, About.com, May 2005

"As a database analyst for a large company, I oftentimes am confronted with small scale problems in Access. As always, there are a dozen different ways to solve them. Since I'm not 50 years old chock full of years of experience, the hacks here have saved me plenty of times. Once you read through it, you'll know when to apply the hack to a real world problem at work."
--J Nagy, Amazon.com review, May 2005

"Mr. Bluttman has good insight to what makes database development more productive. Many of the hacks in this book are immediately useful in the business world like using a Confidential watermark, or having a way to randomly sort records, or even how to creatively sort the data in the lists. Don't miss the goodies either--putting web browsers on Access forms, and creating your own custom formatting. And much more. I highly recommend this book to Access users or developers at all levels."
--Andre De Vries, Amazon.com review, May 2005

"This is not a book for beginners. It presumes that you have and have used Access. To get full advantage of the book, you also need to have at least a little bit of experience with Visual Basic. It is also not a beginner's level introduction to SQL, the language of databases that Access speaks....Having said all this, the intermediate/advanced user will find this book to be absolutely filled with good information. "
--John Matlock, Books-On-Line, May 2005

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