Alison Balter’s Mastering Microsoft Access 2002 Desktop Development

Chapter 18. A Strategy to Developing Access Applications

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• Splitting Databases into Tables and Other Objects 788

• Basing Forms and Reports on Queries or Embedded SQL Statements 790

• Understanding the Access Runtime Engine 791

• Using an EXE Versus Access Database: What It Means to You 796

• Understanding the Importance of Securing Your Database 797

• Using Access as a Front End 798

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Why This Chapter Is Important

You should know about several tricks of the trade that can save you a lot of time in the development process and help ensure that your applications are as optimized as possible for performance. This chapter addresses these strategies and also explains several commonly misunderstood aspects of the Jet Engine, ...