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 Accessible Access 2003Our first book on Access was entitled Accessible Access 2000. Given that this one is all about Access 2003, we clearly had to change the title. As soon as you change the title of a book, you get a new ISBN and technically it’s a new book. However, since the original book seemed to be popular with its readers, we didn’t want to change a... |  | Database Design (Mcgraw Hill Computer Science Series)The material in this book is the result of courses given at Stanford University as “File and Database Structures” since 1971. Initially little coherent published material was available, even though a large number of references could be cited.
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