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Summary: The best book on Access
Review: Let me start by saying that I have bought and read no less than about 50 technical books in my lifetime and I have never written a review good or bad about any of them. With this one I feel like I have to write a review so that no one else makes the same mistake I made.I have been in the computer field for over 10 years now and I recently decided that I want to learn Access. I am already quite familiar with most of the concepts and want to learn how to write a small Access program. I started with Access Step by Step and it was great. The next step in Microsoft's plan is to read this book. What a completely terrible book. It is all over the place. It goes on and on about stupid stuff like using a keyboard and mouse and never, not once in all 1,000 pages, show you how to create forms to manipulate data. He says look at my bad examples on the cd but never once talks you through designing your own form. Terrible, terrible book!
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Summary: The worst book I have ever purchased.....
Review: Let me start by saying that I have bought and read no less than about 50 technical books in my lifetime and I have never written a review good or bad about any of them. With this one I feel like I have to write a review so that no one else makes the same mistake I made. I have been in the computer field for over 10 years now and I recently decided that I want to learn Access. I am already quite familiar with most of the concepts and want to learn how to write a small Access program. I started with Access Step by Step and it was great. The next step in Microsoft's plan is to read this book. What a completely terrible book. It is all over the place. It goes on and on about stupid stuff like using a keyboard and mouse and never, not once in all 1,000 pages, show you how to create forms to manipulate data. He says look at my bad examples on the cd but never once talks you through designing your own form. Terrible, terrible book!
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Summary: The first step to become an Access developer.
Review: Running MS Access 2000 will teach all you need to know about how the software works. You will get to know the shortcuts, and how to make use of all the possibilities that lies within Access. Further, you will learn how to plan and execute the entire process involved in a database development project. This book will give you the knowledge to navigate your way around Access 2000, you will know in what direction to go to find the feature you are looking for. Included on the CD you will find lots of programming examples, but it is not a pure programming book, the emphasis is on the capabilities of the software, and how and where to make use of them. If you are new to database programming and/or Access 2000, I recommend this book so that when you have learned about the software you can focus 100 % on building your database, instead of trying to find out what Access can or can not do. By investing your time and money in reading Running MS Access 2000 and then a programming book (0078825121, 0672314843, 0782123716, 0735605009) you will be able to build your database system in the least amount of time, and in the process gaining a basic knowledge as the first step to become a professional Access developer.
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Summary: Access is for Mom & Pop and Bowling databases
Review: Some of the information is great but overall, dont waste the money on any of these books. READ THEM IN THE STORE AND TAKE NOTES. DONT WASTE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY.
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Summary: Access is for Mom & Pop and Bowling databases
Review: Some of the information is great but overall, dont waste the money on any of these books. READ THEM IN THE STORE AND TAKE NOTES. DONT WASTE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY.
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Summary: Poor Training Kit: Online Tutorial & "Running Access 2000"
Review: The accompanying computer-based tutorial (not the books own CD) would be MUCH more useful in book format, so that single-PC trainees won't have to either split windows or frequently switch between Access and tutorial. The tutorial's content is cookbook -- and worthwhile for beginners like me. Once one finishes the tutorial, one quickly finds that the "Running Access..." book is clearly a reference and not a training guide. Unfortunately, the tutorial does not provide sufficient practice for the trainee to only need a reference book. Recommendation: For trainees, find a more comprehensive training resource. I'm now buying Alison Balter's "Mastering Access 2000 Development" book, wishing I had started there.
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Summary: Too many words
Review: The problem I see with this book is the author takes too much time explaining a thing, you can probably write the same content in half the number of pages (500) without losing any content.
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Summary: Helped me to get going!!!
Review: This book is not meant to be the ultimate reference for access it did exactly for me what i expected. It got me started into the world of Access programming. It was long and did over explain a lot, but that was what i needed at the time. SO for me, it was perfect. As a bonus, when i was in a rut and i needed an answer i found the authors Email address in the book and he helped to steer me in the right direction a couple of times. Now I have moved on to more technical books about the Access world, but i am very thankful for the groundwork this book helped me to lay down.
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Summary: Helped me to get going!!!
Review: This book is not meant to be the ultimate reference for access it did exactly for me what i expected. It got me started into the world of Access programming. It was long and did over explain a lot, but that was what i needed at the time. SO for me, it was perfect. As a bonus, when i was in a rut and i needed an answer i found the authors Email address in the book and he helped to steer me in the right direction a couple of times. Now I have moved on to more technical books about the Access world, but i am very thankful for the groundwork this book helped me to lay down.
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Summary: Not a good choice!
Review: This book is not very helpful. Instructions and examples are vague and focus too much on the sample DB on the CD.
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