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Summary: Excellent Book for Beginners
Review: First of all this is an excellent book for people with no prior experience of MS Access 97. Don't listen to those above who give out about this book - it's a great starting point for learning this complex package. Buy it !
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Summary: Great if you want to make a database for sweet lil's candys
Review: Horrific. It tells you how to build the sample database. It goes through it step by step but doesn't explain anything.....eg "make sure you have selected columnar......" WHY??? You can't explain data normalization in a page. I needed a book that would enable me to create a working database quickly. This is a good book if you need a database for your video collection or address book. For a business it's useless.
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Summary: I don't recommend this book for beginners.
Review: I agree with one of the other less kind reviews that this book tells you step by step what to do for the excercises. It does not explain the reasons behind the steps.
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Summary: For beginners, only
Review: I bought this book and went from knowing nothing about Access to being able to fake having used it for years at a temp job. If you don't have your own copy of Access and can only use it on the job, this book is great, because it's slow-paced and has a lot of pictures.However, it is only slightly better than Access' built in help files. If you want to save your money (if you don't have to cram to fake proficiency like I did), first learn the basics by experimentation and reading the built-in help, then buy a more thorough text. While the book certainly helped me, I can't imagine doing anything with it now except chucking it in the trash. It was worth the investment, but it's not a keeper.
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Summary: A waste of money...
Review: I bought this book believing some of the comments... Well, here's mine: It's a TOTAL waste of money, not to mention your time reading it!
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Summary: Lack of clarity; Should have included solution sets w/ disk
Review: I echo many of the negative comments given by others with respect to informing the reader why he or she wants to do certain actions. As a first time database user, I find this text very frustrating. I also found frustrating that the disk enclosed with the text doesn't have the solutions for various chapters. Although the book encourages you to just jump in to the section where you are interested, your disk doesn't contain that chapter's starting point. In my view, you really ought to go through the whole book and do each step; otherwise, you don't have the proper starting point for the new chapter. The authors ought to have included the solution sets. That also helps others who might have zigged when they should have zagged.
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Summary: Good starting point for Developers
Review: I found the book to be a very good starting point. It interduces you to the basics of working in Access. This is definately the best starting point. I found myself wanting more. Would like to hear from advanced users where to go next.
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Summary: Microsoft Access 97
Review: I found this book to be very helpful. It's written for the beginner but is also very helpful for someone who needs to review Access. I also found the Practice Files to be excellent. I have been able to work at my own pace & fit it in when I have time at work. I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs to learn Access or review it.
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Summary: Clear, Simple, an easy, low cost book .....
Review: I read and used this book cover to cover. It was almost sufficient enough to allow me to pass my exam. I did use another MSPRESS book for more hardcore reference. The exercises are fun, and if it was not for the minor mistakes in the book I would rate it 5 stars. Look to the MSPRESS site and check under support for the corrections...print it out to view the minor problems for yourself. Overall a great book...don't bother with Exam Crams A97 "WASTE OF TIME" book...this is the better deal! Good luck!!!!
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Summary: Not much use to novice
Review: I think this is a rather disorganised book and thus is not much use to novice who are new to the application MS Access.
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