Access Hacks

As part of the Microsoft Office suite, Access has become the industry’s leading desktop database management program for organizing, accessing, and sharing information. But taking advantage of this product to build increasingly complex Access applications requires something more than your typical how-to book. What it calls for is Access Hacks from O’Reilly.This valuable guide provides direct, hands-on solutions that can help relieve the frustrations felt by users struggling to master the program’s various complexities. For experienced users, Access Hacks offers a unique collection of proven techniques and tools that enable them to take their database skills and productivity to the next level. For Access beginners, it helps them acquire a firm grasp of the program’s most productive features.A smart collection of insider tips and tricks, Access Hacks covers all of the program’s finer points. Among the multitude of topics addressed, it shows users how to:

work with Access in multi-user environments
utilize SQL queries
work with external data and programs
integrate Access with third-party products

Just imagine: a learning process without the angst. Well, Access Hacks delivers it with ease, thanks to these down-and-dirty techniques not collected together anywhere else.Part of O’Reilly’s best-selling Hacks series, Access Hacks is based on author Ken Bluttman’s two decades of real-world experience in database programming and business application building. It’s because of his vast experiences that the book is able to offer such a deep understanding of the program’s expanding possibilities.

Author Biography

Ken Bluttman has been developing custom business applications for PC platforms since the 1980s. He worked for more than a decade as a contract programmer specializing in Microsoft Office products and has worked with Microsoft Access since version 1 was released. Ken also has experience as an Office/VBA specialist for companies ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 firms, developing solutions that combine Office with Oracle and SQL Server as back ends. For the last few years, he’s worked on XML and web-based solutions in addition to traditional client/server applications.