Fixing Access Annoyances

How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About Your Favorite Database

By Phil Mitchell, Evan Callahan
February 2006
Pages: 380
Series: Annoyances
ISBN 10: 0-596-00852-X | ISBN 13: 9780596008529
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Access is one of the easier and more flexible database management solutions for organizing data. You could grab other books for help, but do they solve problems from page one? Meet a book of a different stripe where newcomers start off right and learn valuable methods for building databases while seasoned pros gain efficiency. Fixing Access Annoyances saves time and bouts of hair pulling.
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When an application is part of the Microsoft Office suite, it's sure to be a leader in its field. In the realm of desktop database management, Access is top dog with millions of users. But this is one dog that can bite. Although Access is a powerful, relational tool with the fetching talents of a Labrador, it's not an easy beast to train.

Still, millions of users count on Access for everything from managing parts databases to running Web catalogs to working as a front end to mondo SQL databases. But Access is chockablock with annoyances---report hassles, query conundrums, VBA bugs, arcane error messages, and more.

O'Reilly's Annoyances series offer real-world help, right now, and Fixing Access Annoyances continues tradition. You'll not only squash bugs and workaround Access' limits, but you'll learn how to use Access to the max, whether you're a newbie or a seasoned pro. Coverage includes install/configuration annoyances, building better tables and queries, creating forms that work right, generating reliable and sophisticated reports, pulling in data from a variety of sources, crafting macros and VBA code to customize Access, and much more.

You could grab those other books for help, but do they solve problems from page one? Meet a book of a different stripe. The authors come armed with knowledge of the program's quirks, design hurdles and interface snags. They provide you with battle plans in Fixing Access Annoyances to save you time and bouts of hair pulling.

Stop information from spiraling out of control when working with Access and trying to make this #$@@#$ thing work! Don't let its quirks, bugs, and troublemaking features beat you. Who you gonna call for help? Instead of waiting on the line for tech support or searching for the answer on the Internet with its too many resources to find exactly what you need, take control of databases with Fixing Access Annoyances, your partner on database adventures.




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Everyone using Access should read this book.,  March 09 2009
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I've had this book for 3 plus months now and have been reading it off and on as I've gotten time during work - its so full of great advice and insights into Access that it is very much worth the full retail I actually paid for it (and you can't say that about many computer books). I've used Access for 4 years now and I've learned some great stuff that I would never have picked up in my day-to-day use of the software. Excellent read and very informative.


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"O'Reilly's Annoyances series offer real-world help, right now, and Fixing Access Annoyances continues tradition. You'll not only squash bugs and workaround Access' limits, but you'll learn how to use Access to the max, whether you're a newbie or a seasoned pro. Coverage includes install/configuration annoyances, building better tables and queries, creating forms that work right, generating reliable and sophisticated reports, pulling in data from a variety of sources, crafting macros and VBA code to customize Access, and much more...Instead of waiting on the line for tech support or searching for the answer on the Internet with its too many resources to find exactly what you need, take control of databases with Fixing Access Annoyances, your partner on database adventures."
-- Steve Brock, Stevo's Book Reviews on the Internet



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"Instead of waiting on the line for tech support or searching for the answer on the Internet with its too many resources to find exactly what you need, take control of databases with Fixing Access Annoyances, your partner on database adventures."
--Steve Brock, Stevo's Book Reviews on the Internet