Access 2002 BibleISBN: 978-0-7645-3596-3
Paperback
1392 pages
July 2001
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About the Authors Cary N. Prague is an internationally best selling
author and lecturer in the database industry. He owns Database
Creations, Inc., the world's largest Microsoft Access add-on
company. Their products include a line of financial software;
Business! for Microsoft Office, a mid-range accounting system,
POSitively Business! Point of Sale software, the Inventory Barcode
manager for mobile data collection, and the Check Writer and
General Ledger. Database Creations also produces a line of
developer tools including the appBuilder, an application generator
for Microsoft Access, the EZ Access Developer Tools for building
great user interfaces, appWatcher for maintaining code bases among
several developers, and Surgical Strike, the only Patch Manager for
Microsoft Access. Cary also owns Database Creations Consulting,
LLC., a successful consulting firm specializing in Microsoft Access
and SQL Server applications. Local and national clients include
many Fortune 100 companies including manufacturers, defense
contractors, insurance, health-care, and software industry
companies. His client list includes Microsoft, United Technologies,
ABB, Smith & Wesson Firearms, Pratt and Whitney Aircraft,
ProHealth, OfficeMax, Continental Airlines, and other Fortune 500
companies. Formerly, he has held numerous management positions in
corporate information systems, including Director of Managed Care
Reporting for MetraHealth, Director of Corporate Finance and
Software Productivity at Travelers Insurance where he was
responsible for software support for 35,000 end users, and Manager
of Information Systems support for Northeast Utilities. He is one
of the top best-selling authors in the computer database management
market having written over forty books which have sold over one
million copies on software including Microsoft Access, Borland
(Ashton-Tate) dBASE, Paradox, R:Base, Framework, and graphics.
Cary's books include eleven books in the Access Bible series
(recently number one on the Ingram Bestselling Database Titles list
and in the Amazon.com top 100), Access 97 Secrets, dBASE for
Windows Handbook, dBASE IV Programming (winner of the Computer
Press Association's Book of the Year award for Best Software
Specific Book), and Everyman's Database Primer Featuring dBASE IV.
He previously completed three books for Access 2000 including
Weekend Crash Course in Access 2000 Programming. Cary recently sold
a product line named eTools for Microsoft Access to MightyWords, a
division of FatBrain.com and Barnes and Noble. Cary is certified in
Access as a Microsoft Certified Professional and has passed the
MOUS test in Access and Word. He is a frequent speaker at seminars
and conferences around the country. He is on the exclusive
Microsoft Access Insider Advisory Board and makes frequent trips to
Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA. He has been voted the best
speaker by the attendees of several national conferences. Recently,
he was a speaker for Microsoft sponsored conferences in New
Orleans, Hawaii, Phoenix, Chicago, Toronto, Palm Springs, Boston,
and Orlando. He has also spoken at Borland's Database Conference,
Digital Consulting's Database World, Microsoft's Developer Days,
Computerland's Technomics Conference, COMDEX, and COMPAQ Computer's
Innovate. He was a contributing editor to Access Advisor magazine
and has written for the Microsoft Office Developer's journal. Cary
holds a master's degree in computer science from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, and an M.B.A. and Bachelor of Accounting
from the University of Connecticut. He is also a Certified Data
Processor. Michael R. Irwin is considered one of the leading
authorities on automated database and Internet management systems
today. He is a noted worldwide lecturer, a winner of national and
international awards, best-selling author, and developer of
client/server, Internet, Intranet, and PC-based database management
systems. Mr. Irwin has extensive database knowledge, gained by
working with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C.
as a developer and analyst for the Information Systems Division for
over 20 years and assorted Federal Agencies of the United States
Government. Since retiring in June 1992, he runs his own consuiting
firm, named The Irwin Group, and is principal partner in the
company - IT in Asia, LLC, specializing in Internet database
integration and emphasizing Client/Server and net solutions. With
consulting offices in Cincinnati Ohio, Bangkok Thailand, and Manila
Philippines, his companies offer Training and Development of
Internet and database applications. His company has the distinction
of being one of the first Microsoft Solution's Providers (in 1992).
His local, national, and international clients include many
software companies, manufacturers, government agencies, and
international companies. His range of expertise includes database
processing and integration between mainframe, minicomputer, and
PC-based database systems, as well as B-2-B and B-2-C integration
between back-end databases; he is a leading authority on PC-based
databases. He is one of the top best-selling authors in the
computer database management market having authored numerous
database books, with several of them consistently on the best
sellers lists. His books, combined, have sold nearly a million
copies worldwide. His most recent works include The OOPs Primer
(Borland Press, dBASE 5.5 for Windows Programming (Prentice Hall),
Microsoft Access 2000 Bible, Microsoft Access 2000 Bible Gold
Edition (co-authored), and Working with the Internet. The Access
Bible series have recently been number one on the Ingram
Bestselling Database Titles list and is always in the Amazon.com
top 100. He has also written several books on customs and cultures
of the countries of Asia (including China, Japan, Thailand, and
India). Two of his books have won international acclaim. His books
are published in over 24 languages worldwide. He has been a
contributing editor and author to many well-known magazines and
journals. He is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences
around the world and has been voted the best speaker by the
attendees of several international conferences. Michael has
developed and markets several add-on software products for the
Internet and productivity related applications. Many of his
productivity applications can be obtained from several of his
Internet sites or on many common download sites. Many of his
application and systems are distributed as freeware and careware.
He has also developed and distributes several development tools and
add-ins for a wide range of developer applications.