Gary W. Graley
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I guess our company likes to play leap frog, so we didn't bother with 2007 
while I'm not in our IT dept, they rely on me to create and maintain the various databases in our company from our manufacturing planning to our engineering and several other odds and ends to help the day to day things go just a little bit nicer.
BUT, my real day job was in our field service area so I traveled a great deal and it's been a while since I've created from scratch, just get the occasional help request when someone decided they didn't like how a query was named, wow lol it took a few minutes to pull that info from the guy, I kept saying "what did you do Carl?" ....'nothing'..."Carl, WHAT did you do"...'really nothing'..."CARL what did you DO?"...'well I did change the name on a few queries to what I wanted them to say' "HMMM that's important information Carl" lol because I knew he had done something, managers, ya gotta love em.
But the reason for the post is a request for a solid book to help me with 2010, I did a search on this forum but didn't find a clear winner. Checking Amazon I find a lot of books but the reviews all have varying degrees of how good it is, so, I come to you guys and gals for your knowledge, help a poor guy moving from 2003 to 2010.
My background of expertise, I don't write code, my downfall I know, I would like to someday, a book for that would be nice too by the way! So my knowledge base is pretty low, I try to be as logical as possible when creating a database, I stick to what I consider good naming conventions, but I also rely on macros for a lot of work. I found that some macros from 2003 do not play well in 2010, such as showtoolbar function, I had some macros that would clear the toolbars when a form opened. I can hear some of you moaning now, that's not the way you make a form open cleanly, well it was a WAY that I found, haha, as I say my work was not my real job but a sideline so time was short and short cuts, even long ones, were used when I didn't know the way it should be done.
So any help would be great!
Thanks,
G2
while I'm not in our IT dept, they rely on me to create and maintain the various databases in our company from our manufacturing planning to our engineering and several other odds and ends to help the day to day things go just a little bit nicer.BUT, my real day job was in our field service area so I traveled a great deal and it's been a while since I've created from scratch, just get the occasional help request when someone decided they didn't like how a query was named, wow lol it took a few minutes to pull that info from the guy, I kept saying "what did you do Carl?" ....'nothing'..."Carl, WHAT did you do"...'really nothing'..."CARL what did you DO?"...'well I did change the name on a few queries to what I wanted them to say' "HMMM that's important information Carl" lol because I knew he had done something, managers, ya gotta love em.
But the reason for the post is a request for a solid book to help me with 2010, I did a search on this forum but didn't find a clear winner. Checking Amazon I find a lot of books but the reviews all have varying degrees of how good it is, so, I come to you guys and gals for your knowledge, help a poor guy moving from 2003 to 2010.
My background of expertise, I don't write code, my downfall I know, I would like to someday, a book for that would be nice too by the way! So my knowledge base is pretty low, I try to be as logical as possible when creating a database, I stick to what I consider good naming conventions, but I also rely on macros for a lot of work. I found that some macros from 2003 do not play well in 2010, such as showtoolbar function, I had some macros that would clear the toolbars when a form opened. I can hear some of you moaning now, that's not the way you make a form open cleanly, well it was a WAY that I found, haha, as I say my work was not my real job but a sideline so time was short and short cuts, even long ones, were used when I didn't know the way it should be done.
So any help would be great!
Thanks,
G2
