Using Microsoft Access 97

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Summary: Using Access '97 doesn't touch on all of the capability...
Review: This book goes rather in depth of using all the wizards which come with Access 97, which is great if you've never ever created your own database before. However, absolutely no theory or explaination is given as to when or why you would (or wouldn't) want to do this or that in any of the examples. I do have a computer science degree, and a database class was required in our curiculum. So, i know a lot of the theory of relational databases, normalization and entity relationships. Unfortunatley, this text very breifly mentioned those concepts. They are *extremely* improtant when designing the underlying data structure. Also, the text did give a lot of VBA examples, unfortunately the examples were given under the assumption that you know VBA. Only if you're brand-spanking new to access development would this book be of any use. I can't recomend it though to any person who is a development professional. I just purchased Access 97 Bible 97, Gold edition. I've heard many good things about it. That text only lightly covers VBA usuage, which is a good thing, since VBA is an interpreted scripting tool, which means it's VERY VERY slow. HINT: dont EVER use VBA, for anything. The same goes for Java. Stay away from anything interpreted.

Rating:
Summary: Using Access '97 doesn't touch on all of the capability...
Review: This book goes rather in depth of using all the wizards which come with Access 97, which is great if you've never ever created your own database before. However, absolutely no theory or explaination is given as to when or why you would (or wouldn't) want to do this or that in any of the examples. I do have a computer science degree, and a database class was required in our curiculum. So, i know a lot of the theory of relational databases, normalization and entity relationships. Unfortunatley, this text very breifly mentioned those concepts. They are *extremely* improtant when designing the underlying data structure. Also, the text did give a lot of VBA examples, unfortunately the examples were given under the assumption that you know VBA. Only if you're brand-spanking new to access development would this book be of any use. I can't recomend it though to any person who is a development professional. I just purchased Access 97 Bible 97, Gold edition. I've heard many good things about it. That text only lightly covers VBA usuage, which is a good thing, since VBA is an interpreted scripting tool, which means it's VERY VERY slow. HINT: dont EVER use VBA, for anything. The same goes for Java. Stay away from anything interpreted.

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Summary: It is a great reference for beginning Access Programming!
Review: This book is great and it was simple to follow and the pictures in the book make it a good buy adding value to the customer. Also, Good descriptions in the Macros section make it easier to find what Action you need. VBA couldn't be explained any easier. May need to watch for a few flaws in the graphs unfortunately but that shouldn't be the only reason for buying this book.

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Summary: If you've taken the intro course and want to know more,
Review: this is a great resource to help you add some of the bells and whistles you want to have in your application to make it easier to navigate your database. Pictures of the screens you will need to manipulate make the processes easy to understand and follow. There is also a great introduction to Visual Basic for those who just aren't sure about taking that next step.