Access 97 Programming for Windows for Dummies

A better title for this book would have been, "How to get the most out of Access with the least amount of programming". The book seems old but most of the information seems to apply for versions of Access at least up to and including 2000. If you have taken an intro Access course with some VBA, have dabbled with some SQL and have a real world problem to solve with Access you'll find this book an indispensable resource. If you haven't used Access before and need to be led gently by the hand or if you are a professional programmer, this book may disappoint you. I own several IT books and Access books in particular. But this and an older one part of the "How to" series are the ones that I still look up regularly to-date to the point where they are nearly falling apart. Why? Krumm's book gives very good examples of how to squeeze the most out of the Access visual designer to create Access forms that address real world problems with a minimum of coding. It's a relatively small book but it packs more interesting how-to's than books four times as large which would have you stay up all night debugging code. But why? You'd be better off spending your precious time learning Oracle, DB2, etc. As long as Walkenbach doesn't write Access books, Krumm's book will be close at hand on my computer desk.

I bought this book only because it was the only Access VBA book I could find at the time. After starting with it, I found others. I now have a library of 6 VBA books, but this is the only one I call my "bible" for programming VBA. This book covers ALL of the basics and is easier to read then any other VBA book I have ever read. My hat is off to Rob Krumm!!!!

I'm a dummy and I understood this book. It's well written, logical, thorough and useful.

This book does not really fit into the "for Dummies" classification. I think they may have done it a disservice by giving it that label, as many who would benefit from it, may not recognise its potential. It presumes a previous knowlege of database programming principles and familiarity with using Access97 applications. I am making the transistion from writing dBase/FoxPro code over to playing "find the secret button" with Access97. I know exactly what I want to do and could write out the dBase code in a moment, but finding where to click to cause the "wizard" to create the necessary code has been frustrating. This book takes a totally different approach from any other I have examined and there have been quite a few. The others start at the GUI end, Rob Krumm starts with the code modules and SQL. He also covers the extensive debugging resources of Access97 which other authors hardly mention. GUI is covered along the way in this context.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It contained some great programming examples that you can easily incorporate into your own databases. I hadn't done any VBA programming before I got this book and now feel pretty comfortable. Don't let the Dummies thing fool you, this book can help anyone who does Access work.