July 1999
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
13h 10m
English
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Preface
Let me begin by thanking all of those readers who have helped to make the first edition of this book so very successful. Also, my sincere thanks go to the many readers who have written some very flattering reviews of the first edition on amazon.com and on O’Reilly’s own web site. Keep them coming.
With the recent release of Office 2000, and in view of the many suggestions I have received concerning the first edition of the book, it seemed like an appropriate time to do a second edition. I hope that readers will find the second edition of the book to be even more useful than the first edition.
Actually, Access has undergone only relatively minor changes in its latest release, at least with respect to the subject matter of this book. Changes for the Second Edition are:
A discussion (Chapter 8, and Chapter 9 of Access’ new VBA Integrated Development Environment. At last Access shares the same IDE as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint!
In response to reader requests, I have significantly expanded the discussion of the VBA language itself, which now occupies Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, and Chapter 13.
Chapter 17, which is new for this edition, provides a fairly complete discussion of ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). This is also accompanied by an appendix on Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), which is still intimately connected with ADO.
As you may know, ADO is a successor to DAO (Data Access Objects) and is intended to eventually replace DAO, although I suspect that this will take some ...
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