Databases: Design,Development,& Deployment Using Microsoft Access [Hardcover]

Peter Rob (Author), Elie Semann (Author), Elie Semaan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2002

This is a book that teaches the more advanced topics of database design through the use of Microsoft Access. The second edition has been completely updated to give students the latest information. By using Microsoft's Access 2002, students will learn the intricacies of developing a database. Also with the ever-growing area of web programming, students will have a chapter tying database and web programming together and another chapter specifically on VB Script. Lastly, a revamped chapter on security will address the ever-changing and important issues of this area.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 736 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media; 2nd edition (November 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072826584
• ISBN-13: 978-0072826586
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,082,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Good Riddance, December 18, 2005

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Schooled (Big10 Country, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Databases: Design,Development,& Deployment Using Microsoft Access (Hardcover)

Databases aren't easy. Books should be. This book makes databases even harder to understand. It covers everything for a beginner ... a beginner who enjoys being condescended to by verbose authorspeak that extensibly confuses every mundane concept it regurgitates. This book doesn't deserve burning, rather a cold, damp disposal atop a seething pile of refuse. I pity the fool who I sell it to. [SOLD, for $10] It is an example of the worst required curriculum sold by school bookstores for flagrant profit and repetitious upgrade. I learned more in a matter of hours from the ComputerPrep Module Academic Student Guides, than from this overpriced knowitall publication during the entire semester.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Coverage of Database Design, July 1, 2011

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max the cat - See all my reviews

This review is from: Databases: Design, Development, & Deployment Using Microsoft Access w/ Student CD (Paperback)

This book offers good coverage of database design and data modeling using ERDs, or entity-relationship diagrams. These are standard data modeling tools, widely used in industry. Contrary to some previous reviewers I found the book was clear and did a good job of explaining the complex topic of data modeling. On the other hand, I don't have a competing product to sell.

This books is aimed at the computer science student with at least some background in logic, object-oriented programming and modeling. I do think the book is written at too high a level to be easily accessible to the computer hobbyist or someone without a strong general computer science background.

My only critique is the use of Microsoft access as a tool to practice database development. In my experience access simply isn't used in industry any longer (if it ever was). MySQL would have been a much better choice to practice database creation.

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent Book, May 5, 2009

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This review is from: Databases: Design,Development,& Deployment Using Microsoft Access (Hardcover)

I needed this book for a class I was taking. It covers everything using Access as an example. I think it did a great job of going over everything. I don't feel I got the full understanding of normalizing. I think the book could use some step by step examples.