Theoritically, this is a very good book. Covers everything, good illustation of examples. Wrox site has downloads for all the examples. Many more good things.Here are the Not good things.. 1. Examples come with access2000 tables. There are no Access 97 tables. If you dont have office 2000, the examples are useless. 2. Not enough explanation to make the examples work. 3. The book never explains to connect to a Data base. Lot of advanced stuff is provided. But without the basics, its all useless and garbage. 4. There is no complete example.