Topics ranged from general (how databases into real life and your business needs, comparison with other database development tools, an extensive discussion of integration with existing systems and software) through the building-blocks of FileMaker solutions, and on up to state of- the-art advice on the concept of optimization, modularization, innovative and advanced user interface design, dynamic element, logic, advanced calculation, publishing your database to the Web, and integrate tightly with SQL databases via the "ESS". The book also includes a special developer tools that are available in FileMaker Pro Advanced, and covers the topic too often exceeded in the other books on the market - back up how-to and strategy, must-read information about a database of good breeding and recovery files, and so on.