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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Access 97 by Joe Habraken, John Pivorarnek, Joseph W. Habraken ISBN: 0-7897-1051-X Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 14 February, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99

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Average Customer Rating: 2.75 (4 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Terrible!
Comment: If you really are a beginner in Access, do not buy this book. I am pretty good at picking up new software quickly, but this book lost me. He uses examples that you don't even have. At one point, he said "choose the suppliers table" but there wasn't a suppliers table!!

Also, he tries to be funny, but fails. You have to read through tons of stupid stuff to get to anything of relevance. And you can't skip over it either, or you'll miss the tiny morsel of important information that he put in among his meaningless drivel. This book truly needs a good editor.

Rating: 5
Summary: A complete, yet very easy to use Access resource.
Comment: This book, while being very funny, is also a great resource for learning Access. The author really knows his stuff.

Rating: 1
Summary: This book desperately needs a new proofreader / editor
Comment: I was appalled at the number of typos, omissions, and just plain ERRORS contained in this book! I find it inexcusable that there are (many!) places where an incorrect illustration is provided, for example. At first I thought I must have a very early edition, but my copy is apparently from the 2nd printing, in 1998...

I was also very disappointed to find that there is no accompanying CD-ROM or website to go along with the tutorials. For each new sample database or table, the reader has to build the framework by hand before being able to work along with the examples in the book. This is made virtually impossible by glaring omissions in the book--whole tables are added and filled in without any notice or explanation, leaving you to scratch your head and wonder "where did THAT come from?" In many cases I resorted to filling in as much data as I could based on close examination of the screen shots!

Finally, although the book discusses a great deal of Access arcana in passing, it has very little depth, and virtually no discussion of what goes into the design of a quality database. You can use Access by the end (if you are persistent) but your design is sure to be weak...

(My apologies to the authors... I just call it like I see it.)