I have purchased just about every single Access book on the market in the pass five years. Alison Balter's Access 2000 development is the best book for client/server programming using Access 2000 as the front-end and SQL Server as the back-end.I have experience in building large multi-user applicatoins in other platforms, and was looking for a book that would show me how to do it in ACCESS 2000 and SQL Server. This is the book.Chapters 16-23 in PART III of the book are the best I've seem in any book describing concepts in designing and coding a large client/server system.The other two books I would highly recommend for ACCESS developers are ACCESS 2000 Developer's Handbook Volume 1 & 2 by Litwin, Gilbert, and Getz.The above books are not for beginning programmers but are for ACCESS developers.