| This second edition of the best-selling Access Database Design & Programming covers Access' new VBA Integrated Development Environment used by Word, Excel, and Powerpoint; the VBA language itself; Microsoft's latest data access technology, Active Data Objects (ADO); plus Open Database Connectivity (ODBC).
This book is for Access users at all levels. Most of it applies equally well to Access 2.0, Access 7.0, Access 8.0, and Access 9.0 (which is a component of Microsoft Office 2000). We will assume that you have a passing acquaintance with the Access development environment, however. For instance, we assume that you already know how to create a table or a query.
Throughout the book, we will use a specific modest-sized example to illustrate the concepts that we discuss. The example consists of a database called LIBRARY that is designed to hold data about the books in a certain library. Of course, the amount of data we will use will be kept artificially small—just enough to illustrate the concepts. |