Appropriate for every course in database development utilizing Microsoft Office Access 2003. In this book, world-renowned Access trainer Alison Balter teaches students every facet of Microsoft Office Access 2003 database development. Balter brings her exceptional solutions-oriented approach to the entire database development lifecycle: planning, coding, security, deployment, and maintenance. Simply and clearly, she introduces an extraordinary array of techniques for developing Access applications in any environment -- including challenging multi-user, enterprise, and Web environments. One step at a time, Balter reviews the fundamentals of Office Access 2003 from the developers standpoint; introduces the fundamentals of Visual Basic for Applications; and presents increasingly advanced techniques for everything from external data access to leveraging the Windows API. The book contains an entire section on building more robust applications, with detailed coverage of error handling, debugging, and optimization. To help students achieve hands-on mastery, Balter also presents many hands-on development exercises, utilizing files, databases, and applications that can be found on the accompanying CD-ROM.