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Summary: Good hands-on book
Review: This is a great hands-on book covering most aspects of MS Access. After looking over several other books, I found this one the easiest to read and use, especially for busy professionals who are computer-savvy but who aren't familiar with Access. It's organized in a way that makes it easy to pick up and learn the one specific task that you need to tackle, or you can read it cover-to-cover like a course.I don't know why the reviews are so negative. No one book can cover everything in Access, but even advanced topics such as VBA and SQL are given decent overviews - and the author gives good recommendations on where to turn for more info. In the end, computer books are a matter of personal preference, and everybody has their own style. This one gets my vote.
Rating:
Summary: Good hands-on book
Review: This is a great hands-on book covering most aspects of MS Access. After looking over several other books, I found this one the easiest to read and use, especially for busy professionals who are computer-savvy but who aren't familiar with Access. It's organized in a way that makes it easy to pick up and learn the one specific task that you need to tackle, or you can read it cover-to-cover like a course. I don't know why the reviews are so negative. No one book can cover everything in Access, but even advanced topics such as VBA and SQL are given decent overviews - and the author gives good recommendations on where to turn for more info. In the end, computer books are a matter of personal preference, and everybody has their own style. This one gets my vote.
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Summary: I should've returned this book when I saw read-only files
Review: When I found that parts of the CDROM were read-only, I emailed the publisher. They emailed me back, saying they were not read-only. Two of the first five databases were unusable, and it took a long time to get past that. I'm now about halfway through the book, and although the book started with some good, in-depth discussions, it has rapidly progressed to manipulations of reports and queries based on tables you don't understand the basis of. I wish we could be building one or more databases from scratch, so I could understand what I've done. Oh, and some of the practice examples are already done, so you can't follow the directions to do them. I can't wait to finish this book, so I can move on to something more useful. It barely touches on most topics, so there'll still be lots to learn before I can make any use of it. I wish I'd gone to Amazon and read reviews, instead of browsing at the bookstore.
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