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Infomaker 5: Professional Reference : A Guide to Developing Client/Server Applications (McGraw-Hill Series on Client/server Computing)

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The focus of this book is mainly on telling you the names of the parts of Infomaker. While it does have examples of how to use some of the features of Infomaker, they tend to be very basic. If you are looking for information about creating queries, this book isn't for you. The Infomaker 5 documentation is so poor that I did learn some things, but it didn't answer most of my questions.

With out a well-developed back ground in relational databases, I would not have been able to follow the book and tutorials. The tutorials contain errors and misdirection. For instance, the author, in chapter 8, instructs the user to input his/her very first row in a sample table that was just created. When the data is committed to the database, an error occurs because data is missing from a primary table (the primary table must be filled out first). This was one of the many errors I found in the tutorial.

The book is far short of what I experienced a similar tutorial for MS Access published by the MS press.