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Title: Access 2000: The Complete Reference by Virginia Andersen ISBN: 0-07-882512-1 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A great resource for the budding database developer.
Comment: After perusing the other reviews I reached this conclusion: (which makes sense) everyone has reviewed this book from their own perspective. As will I.
But first what the book isn't:
This book was not designed as an easy reference manual for you SQL and VB gurus out there who can whip out something superior to Microsoft Money in an afternoon. Check out the title The COMPLETE Reference. This book is 1300 pages long. It can be used as a study guide if you are going to take the MOUS.
This book was not designed (though the diligent can try) as an introduction to Access. There is so much information here that you will swamp yourself with details and give up before too long.
This book is:
A great resource for someone who has had one class in Access development, or (like me) two or three years of playing with simple databases (like tracking one checking account, etc.). There is a quick reference in back, which I've had limited success with. However, with a quick flip of the book's index, I can usually find what I am looking for on the first try.
What I feel was being said by the other reviewers (as a whole): This book doesn't fit my knowledge level!
Those who were not familiar enough with Access 2000 would not know where to look in an index. Those who can design Deep Thought (for all you Hitchiker's fans) would look it up but then have to sift through an entire lesson on the topic instead of just being told what to do.
*****Final Thoughts*****
This book fits the majority of Access users who have been using Access for a while, but aren't proficient enough to work as a professional database developer. Reading through two pages isn't a waste of time at this level because you get a well rounded view of the control/command/whatever.
Rating: 3
Summary: Review of the Complete Ref Access 2000
Comment: This book was useful as a quick reference for the things that are simple to do, that you may have just forgotten or did not know how to go about doing. But as far as getting to the more intermediate and advanced applications of Access, it left you with little help. The book highlighted many of the MOUS exam objectives that were suppose to be applied in each chapter, but the book lacked enough substantive examples to help the reader truly understand the concepts if they did not already have in-depth knowledge. The book oversimplified some of the more difficult tasks and overkilled the most basic fundamentals that are easily walked through by the wizards. The most annoying part of the book was the reference to other parts of the book for the answers to questions posed by the author. If a topic comes up,(like a how do you do this?) a reader wants to know how to solve the dilemma when the question is posed, not 20 chapters later. The author made too much of an attempt to section the book into defined topics and forgot that this is a relational database we are dealing with and so things should flow more smoothly. This book wasn't enough of a reference and therefore should only be relied upon for simplistic reading.
Rating: 1
Summary: If you love to read read & read some more this is for you!
Comment: I wasn't looking for a novel when I bought this book. I have enough knowledge to get around in acces and just wanted a referece that will give me the guidence to do the rest in a matter of few minutes. Wasn't expecting to read a novel to find something simple!!
If you prefer pictures illustrations to essay descriptions this isn't the book for you ..
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Title: Microsoft Access 2000 Bible by Cary N. Prague, Michael R. Irwin ISBN: 0764532863 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 07 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Excel 2000: The Complete Reference by Kathy Ivens, Conrad Carlberg ISBN: 0072119675 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Accessible Access 2000 by Mark Whitehorn, Bill Marklyn ISBN: 1852333138 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Access 2000 Developer's Handbook 2 Volume Set by Paul Litwin, Ken Getz, Mike Gilbert ISBN: 0782123716 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 15 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $99.99 |
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Title: Alison Balter's Mastering Microsoft Access 2000 Development by Alison Balter ISBN: 0672314843 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 26 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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