Through this guide, students learn how to create, query, and maintain a database as well as create reports, enhance forms and create an application system.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent resource for new Access users,
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This review is from: Microsoft Access 7: Complete Concepts and Techniques (Shelly & Cashman Series) (Paperback)
I use this book (and the entire series, for that matter) for my Adult Education classes. I've used and examined other teaching vehicles, and the thing that impressed me the most about this one is that the students get to create their own simple database from scratch. All other training programs I've seen use samples of databases that have already been created, so the student never has the opportunity to actually build one. Another nice feature (lacking in all other books I've seen) is the section on relating a database program to everyday use through lab exercises and case studies.The illustrations are superb and the procedures are easy to follow (sometimes too easy. The user tends to anticipate steps, thereby missing something). Of course, nothing is perfect, but the problems with the Shelley/Cashman series are minimal. In the Access 97 book, for instance, there is a note advising the user to make a copy of the diskette that comes with the book, and then dele! te all files except the image files. The reason for this is that further along in the book, the students will be using OLE to link to the image files and, since the sample database and the image files are both on floppies, this was not possible with a PC that has only one floppy drive. The main problem with this note was that it was small and easy to miss (and everyone, including me, did miss it). It was also presented way too early in the book, in an area of the training program where it wasn't needed. In my case, it was four weeks before the users needed to know the OLE procedures. Other than that, I'd highly recommend the series to anyone.
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