Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 in 24 Hours

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Summary: Beginners Orientation type of book
Review: Good all around primer on Access. You can blow through the first four or five chapters in two to three hours, depending on your level of concentration and your familiarity with other Microsoft Products and 'wysiwyg' all-in-one database programs.

No one book can hope to provide every reader with the best solution to tackling an application that is new or unfamiliar to him or her. TYMSA2KI24 should be considered an introduction to the interface, functionality and basics of Access 2000, with a brief tutorial on relational databases thrown in for good measure. You should also be able to create relatively simple database projects by "Hour 24". Your mileage may vary, since database design talent cannot be acquired from any book.

IMHO this book will help provide a solid foundation to learning the application. After going through the chapters I hope to find a good "Beginning Access Programming & Development" type of book - something along the lines of "Beginning ASP 3.0" from WROX.

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Summary: What are they smoking?
Review: I found the book to be a great overview of Access 2000. It is a beginner book, and they cover the basics of Access very well. Not sure why the other reviewers are so negative, maybe their friends wrote a different book. If you just want to know the basics, buy this book. If you want to be an expert, buy a more detailed book.

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Summary: Next to useless!
Review: I knew less about databases after reading this book than before. Most of the book focuses on how to use existing databases, not create one of your own. A surprising amount of space is wasted in describing basic Windows procedures (how to open a file, etc). You will not be able to make a database after reading it. Do not, under any circumstances, buy this book.

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Summary: Good, but unnecessarily long...
Review: You could learn this stuff from scratch (as I did) in a book that should be called "Teach Yourself Access 2000 in 1 hour". As another comment on this book reads, it is true: there's is a lot of duplicate info in here. However, it is a good reference to learn Access.