No matter your information management needs, this easy-to-follow resource will show you how to collect and process data, customize data entry, share it through secure pathways, and create your own processing rules. Designed for easy comprehension, this helpful guide gives you step-by-step explanations supported by relevant examples and exercises.
Author Biography
Robert Sheldon has worked as a consultant and technical writer for more than ten years. He has designed and implemented various Access and SQL Server databases, as well as designed and implemented a variety of Web-based solutions. In addition to having a technical background, Robert has written or co-written nine books on various network and server technologies.
Table of Contents
PART I: The Access Database
1: Working with Access Databases
2: Creating a Data Model
3: Managing Access Tables
4: Managing Table Properties
5: Managing Table Relationships
6: Managing Database Security
PART II: Data Access and Modification
7: Modifying Data in an Access Database
8: Finding, Sorting, and Filtering Data
9: Importing, Exporting, and Linking Data
10: Querying an Access Database
11: Adding Expressions to Your Queries
PART III: Access Data Objects
12: Creating and Configuring Forms
13: Creating and Configuring Reports
14: Creating and Configuring Data Access Pages
15: Creating Macros and Modules
PART IV: Appendixes
A: Answers to Mastery Checks
B: Keyboard Shortcuts
Reviews
Reviews
In this new edition of Smith's book, the focus has changed with the times. There are about half as many lens designs in the new edition, and the new material is directed toward design projects. Smith shows what he did, including blunders, to design a lens from first concept to final design. The designs include a cemented doublet, a triplet anastigmat, a Heliar, a Schmidt-Cassegrain, a landscape lens, and many more. The computer program OSLO was used to design the work, but the write-ups are program-neutral. Therefore, this book can be used with any lens design software. This book is a working person's text; there are very few derivations of techniques or derivations from first principles, Maxwell's equations, or Fermat's principle. The assumption is that the reader understands the basic optical principles and may have a command of the fundamentals of classical optical design methods. In short, a compendium of design techniques available today and a prescriptive resource for a variety of already designed lens types that can be starting points for a lens designer's efforts. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. -- D.B. Mason, Albright College