A reference book for Access 2003

[AA]

Hi!
I am a comeback database developer using MS Access (last time was 1998). I
kindly ask for your recommendation of a good book(s) that can be used as
Jump starter, and reference. (more than one book is OK)..
Thanks
A.A.

[Lyle Fairfield]

AA wrote:

Hi!
I am a comeback database developer using MS Access (last time was 1998). I
kindly ask for your recommendation of a good book(s) that can be used as
Jump starter, and reference. (more than one book is OK)..
Thanks
A.A.

I recommend three things:

1. Read this page and all its 2003 links and study its 2003 sample
databases.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ac...CL100570041033

(if the link above is cut and pasted it must be put back together as
one line).

2. Learn how to use the object browser. Open a standard module and
press F2; almost everything is there; you have only to read and test;

3. Ask general questions here. Have your bull-shit detector serviced
and ready;

4. If you don't have a background in mathematics read some articles on
set theory; yes everyone laughs when I say this but I believe some
knowledge of set theory will help a lot in conceptualizing one's
database work. At the very least it should help you to avoid idiocies
such as "one-to-many" relationships and "dates are doubles".

[deluxeinformation]

Lyle Fairfield wrote:

4. If you don't have a background in mathematics read some articles on
set theory; yes everyone laughs when I say this but I believe some
knowledge of set theory will help a lot in conceptualizing one's
database work. At the very least it should help you to avoid idiocies
such as "one-to-many" relationships and "dates are doubles".

I have a degree in math and I'm not clear on how "one-to-many"
relationships are idiocies.

Bruce