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Databases: Design,Development,& Deployment Using Microsoft Access

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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.

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.

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.