Book of FileMaker 6: Your One-Stop Guide to FileMaker Pro, Pro Unlimited, Developer, Server, and Mobile

By Stephen Francis Barker

Book Overview

"The Book of FileMaker 6" is a complete reference to the FileMaker Pro product line, a cross-platform relational database management system for large workgroups, small businesses, and database-driven Web sites. Whether you're using FileMaker to run your office or e-Commerce Web site, or to develop commercial FileMaker applications, this complete guide shows how to create robust and dynamic database systems from the ground up. The book introduces the FileMaker Pro development environment (and relational databases in general), but quickly progresses to in-depth discussions of advanced topics such as Web-enabling databases, integration with external applications, ODBC, XML, using plugins, professional development and project planning techniques, and much more. The CD-ROM includes hundreds of complete, ready-to-use example databases discussed in the book. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886411816
• ISBN13: 9781886411814
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Length: 840 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Just What I Needed!

I had used Filemaker briefly and superficially several years ago to do a relatively simple favor for a friend. However, now ... I belong to a theater group and we needed a database to use in doing our ticketing process. So I volunteered! Silly me! At any rate, I upgraded my copy of Filemaker and set to work learning its intricacies as quickly as possible, not realizing yet how complicated the product as I envisioned it would...

A Treasure Trove of FileMaker Insights and Best Practices

Get this book in your FileMaker library. What a fantastic treasure trove of FileMaker knowledge resides in 'The Book of FileMaker 6'! Plenty of examples, a CD included and the only book to cover the gamut of the FileMaker product line. Chris has taken on a monumental task and done a very credible job. Not only is there information on each of the products: FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Unlimited, FileMaker Developer, but this is...

If you can only afford one FM book - make it this one

I have been developing in Filemaker since version 3, but do so in isolation from other developers. So books are important to keep up to date and benefit from other's experience. I have a library of 10 or more Filemaker books, some specialising in particular areas, like web delivery. But if you only have time, space, or money for one general-purpose Filemaker book, then there is no question it should be this one.I never have...

An Excellent Resource!

I've been an advocate of FileMaker since version 2.1 back in 1994. I've read the books, watched the videos, and practiced to create better databases. The Book of FileMaker 6 is probably the most complete reference I've read to date. The chapters are arranged in progression starting at the very beginning with "What is a database?". Don't let that fool you into thinking this is a beginner's tome. The latter chapters will...

Kubica becomes the Tech writer to watch!

This is definitely one of the best-organized and best-written computer books that I have encountered in the last 22 years of reading technical books and manuals.Kubica has written a book that is approachable for any novice to FileMaker and databases in general. The real genius is that he does so without making the more advanced user bored and irritated. Even in the early chapters I learned a trick or two. The best way to learn...