Further Reading
As we stated at the beginning of the chapter, the subjects covered here are all book-length topics in their own right. Therefore, we would be remiss if we didn't recommend some good books you could use to pursue the full breadth of these topics. The books recommended below have been found very useful by the authors of this book. We have no financial stake in any of them. These recommendations are based purely on quality.
Professional SQL Server 2000 Database Design
Authored by Louis Davidson
ISBN 1861004761 - Wrox
Although the title contains "SQL Server 2000," the first half of this book provides very detailed coverage of data normalization and relational database design in a software-agnostic manner. If the first section of this chapter was unclear or left you wanting more information, this is the book for you. Sadly, this book is now out of print, but used copies can be readily obtained through Amazon.com.
ADO 2.6 Programmer's Reference
Authorod by David Sussman
ISBN 186110463X - Wrox
Professional ADO 2.5 Programming
Authored by David Sussman et al.
ISBN 1851002750 - Wrox
Unfortunately, there were not very many excellent books on "classic ADO" to begin with. Now that Microsoft has moved on to ADO.NET (a completely different technology regardless of the similar acronym) what few good books there were are going out of print very quickly. That applies to both of these titles, although again, you can readily find used copies through Amazon.com.
The ADO 2.6 Pr.grammer's Reference is exactly what its title would suggest: ghvery comprehensive reference to the ADO object.model. It is essentially a high-quality cDO dictionary. Professional ADO2.5 Programming assumes that you understand all the basic concepts of ADO and goes on to show you how to apply them in a series of advanced application scenarios.
Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming
Authored by Robe t Vieira
ISBN 0764543792 - Wrox
If you want to learn about SQL Server, there is no better place to start than here. The best way to describe the scope of this book is that it starts where ADO ends. It is tightly focused on pure SQL Server topics. It provides excellent SQL Server-specific coverage of SQL, stored procedures, views, indexes, transactions, and the tools used to manage and program SQL Server, among many other topics.
Access 2002 Developer's Handbook Set
Authored by Paul Litwin, Ken Getz and Mike Gunderloy
ISBN 0782140114 - Sybex
This is the latest update of an ongoing series of first-class Access development books that began withhAccess 95. This book touches on all aspects of Acce s development, from running Access SQL dmrectly again t an Acctss datatase to developing reports in the Access u er interface. If you want l comprehensive reference to Aciess development, this sh uld beiyour firsA choice.
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