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Summary: This is okay
Review: I pick up on software packages pretty quickly, but I find this book to be more advanced for my taste. It took me a while to find out how to do something pretty simple. I had to purchase another book for quick reference look ups.
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Summary: This is okay
Review: I pick up on software packages pretty quickly, but I find this book to be more advanced for my taste. It took me a while to find out how to do something pretty simple. I had to purchase another book for quick reference look ups.
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Summary: Really Learned Access 2000
Review: I previously bought the Access 2.0 Bible and thought it was excellent. I hesitated to buy this book thinking it might be the same but what I found was the same outstanding writing and detailed explanations of database design, queries, and events. I already knew how to use Access and simply skipped the real basics. Alot of new advanced material has been added to cover all of the new features of Access 2000. I use this book in my classes to teach new users who never saw databases. It is written in a wonderful tutorial style. I learn more each time I teach.
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Summary: In-Depth Coverage of Access 2000
Review: I read the gold edition of this book which included 300 pages more than the original version I bought. Great coverage of advanced subjects like security, data projects, and client-server. I especially liked the basics in the book and the easy-to-follow example throughout the book. I've read several books and this is the most in-depth for coverage of forms and reports.
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Summary: Definately NOT the Bible
Review: I think the title of the book is a bit of a misnomer. When I think of the 'Bible' I think of something that is a very comprehensive and authoritative reference. This book is NOT that. It introduces you to the BASICS of Access and never really does the advanced subjects justice. The book won't actually make a very good reference because of the style it is written in. I was looking for a book that covered intermediate to advanced material and this book is more of a basic to intermediate book. Roger Jennings' book "Special Edition Using Access 2000" is the better book for the intermediate to advanced user.
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Summary: Great Book that teaches Access to real people
Review: I thought the book was outstanding. It followed a simple example from start to finish. When I was done, I had the skills to create a fairly complex program. I had previously bought the Access 97 Bible and really appreciated the many places where the differences were pointed out. I especially liked the coverage of the new ADO, Data Access Pages, and Microsoft Database SQL Server Database Engine.
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Summary: Used as a textbook
Review: I use the MS Access 2000 Bible as a textbook in my database course at Baylor University. While I agree with other reviewers that it is not an advanced book (I keep the Access 2000 Developers Handbook by Getz et. al. on my shelf for student reference), it is definitely enough to make a decent project to learn Access from. My only disappointment is that there is not enough coverage of relational database theory such as relations, gerunds and a basic understanding of SQL on which relational databases (Oracle, Informix, etc.) are built. Otherwise you are basically locked into Access (or big brother SQL Server) by using this book. The examples are good and I believe the running theme of a Pet hospital is somewhat helpful in that the author does not have to keep defining the project over and over again. True, there are not many examples of VBA but I believe that is for a more advanced user.
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Summary: Access 2000 Bible
Review: I was looking for a good CheckWriter program so I purchased the Access 2000 Bible so I could have the latest CheckWriter 2000 program that comes on the CD with the book. The CheckWriter 2000 program on the CD WILL NOT run correctly. databasecreations.com did send me 2 replacements and neither of those versions run correctly either! You can't print a new check. You've got to exit the CheckWriter window, then reopen the window, then find your check, then it can be printed. I notified databasecreations 3-4, 3-5, and 3-6 via email about this problem, and no response has been received as of 3-21. I'd like to locate a good CheckWriter program, but this is not it. My advice is: don't buy the book for the CheckWriter Software!
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Summary: Good for beginner, ok for intermediate, poor for advanced
Review: I'm a great admirer of Cary and have worked with his Yes You Can Run Your Business program. I had many questions re. techniques (eg. he doesn't use relative references like me. he hardcodes form references) and was looking forward to this book to enlighten me. I browsed it for an hour and then gave it away to a beginner. It just covered too much basic info and not enough advanced (eg. can you or can you not have a run time ADP project???)
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Summary: Uninspired
Review: I'm not very impressed with this book. This was my first Access book and it seemed like a good book at the time. When I started using this in conjunction with my own database development, I found it lacking.It comes with a pet shop database and all of the examples and discussion center around that. Which I suppose seems to make sense. However, that construct is easy for the authors to create, yet gives us readers an extra "layer" to unravel before we can adapt a concept to our own work. Time and time again I have reached a point in my database development where I needed to figure out how to do something. For example, right now I want to read up on splitting a database. So I flipped to that section, however there is NOTHING in the section that I can find useful. In particular, I want to know how to manage linked tables. So let's say I split a database, and put a database into production for a client. Further let's say that I add a form or report to the front end later and email the changed front end to the client. How do I handle that scenario? This book convers no such "real-world" actions, which is one reason why this book lacks, in my opinion. In addition, the forms and reports that exist in the database are incredibly uninspired and simplistic. For example, check out Figure 19-7 (Chapter 19). It looks like something a child would put together. Or take a look at Figure 16-16, which is a terrible GUI. While reading though this, I felt uninspired. This book verbosely describes concepts that are better explained with real-life examples. It seems more focused on a "widget" rather than something I can relate to. The database looks "cartooney" and unbelievable, constantly requiring me to translate the juvenile examples to something meaningful. The list goes on and on. As an alternative, I would consider Access 2000 - The Complete Reference by Osborne Press (Author: Virginia Anderson). It is a much better reference (I need an answer quick), as well as a "reader" (Read the chapter on using Forms and pleasantly stumble across the sequence of Form_Events that Access exposes).
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