Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 in 21 Days [Paperback]

Paul Cassel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0672312921 | ISBN-13: 978-0672312922 | Publication Date: May 13, 1999

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 in 21 Days is a hands-on tutorial for users who want to learn Access by working through solid examples. This book shows you how to develop solid databases from start to finish. Focusing on Access databases on the desktop, the book also addresses implementing Access in a networked or client/server environment. Key topics included relational databases and the Access 2000 architecture, designing, building, and maintaining full feature database applications, implementing Data Access Pages, working with Visual Basic for Applications and the Visual Basic Editor, and publishing Access content to the WWW or intranet.

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From the Back Cover

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 in 21 Days is a hands-on tutorial for users who want to learn Access by working through solid examples. This book shows you how to develop solid databases from start to finish. Focusing on Access databases on the desktop, the book also addresses implementing Access in a networked or client/server environment. Key topics included relational databases and the Access 2000 architecture, designing, building, and maintaining full feature database applications, implementing Data Access Pages, working with Visual Basic for Applications and the Visual Basic Editor, and publishing Access content to the WWW or intranet.

About the Author

Paul Cassel has been working with and programming personal computer database systems since the days of dBASE II on the original IBM PC. When Microsoft introduced Access 1.0, he quickly recognized it as a superior system for small computers and added Access programming to his consulting business. Since then he has won several MVP awards from Microsoft for demonstrated excellence in Access and is one of the pool of consultants Microsoft calls upon for design discussions about future versions of Access as well as other products. In addition to his consulting work, Paul teaches courses at Univ. of New Mexico. He has published hundreds of articles and numerous books on various computer topics, but his specialty and first love remains Access. Pamela Palmer is an independent consultant specializing in the development of applications using Access, Visual Basic, and Visual Basic for Applications. Pamela has over 15 years experience in the computer industry. She contributed to QUE's Using Visual Basic for Applications 5, Using Word 97, Using Excel 97, Using Project 98, Using Outlook 97 and Using Visual Basic 3 as well as co-authored Prima's Hands On Visual Basic 5. Although the majority of her time is spent developing applications, she divides the remainder of her time between writing books and training documentation and providing training to users and developers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 816 pages
• Publisher: Sams (May 13, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672312921
• ISBN-13: 978-0672312922
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,093,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sams "Obstruct Yourself" from Microsoft Access in 21 Days, July 24, 2000

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"cmjreview" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 in 21 Days (Paperback)

It is not your desire to learn which takes you through the book, but sheer determination !

The book lacks a steady learning curve. It delivers the information in pieces which can be difficult to place in context. Which made me feel like reading a traditional text book, but without a lecturer and fellow students to support me.

There are several errors in the book. It is obviously based on the Beta version of Access 2000, which makes it more troublesome to locate the needed buttons and commands. The samples from the CD will not install automatically, you will have to copy them one by one and change the properties by removing the Read-Only attribute. The code you are asked to write, to gain hands-on experience, is filled with syntax errors. Therefore your examples will not work, which makes it very difficult to proceed to the next task.

After I have read the book, and in the process worked my way around the errors, I feel I have a very good picture of what Access 2000 is capable of, and in what direction I should go to accomplish my programming goals.

If you are new to Access 2000, and want to program a database (Private/Semi-professional level) your will be able to learn how from the book.

The book includes lots of information, but makes it difficult and tiresome to learn Access in 21 days. If only the publisher had a supporting website to list errors, it could have done so much better.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars How to frustrate yourself in 21 days, June 22, 2000

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Miguel Sanchez (Calgary, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 in 21 Days (Paperback)

I am an intermediate Access developer who was looking for abook to fill in the gaps of my Access knowledge, such as how to createadvanced Reports and Queries. After all, the words are written on the title "... master Access 2000 in just 21 days". I will start off by saying this book shows that things are possible in Access, but does not go into explanation on how to do it. Throughout the book, this format is followed:

1. Here's a task for you to try

2. Follow these 20 steps, and don't worry, you don't need an explanation of any of these steps

3. Voila! You now have a working function/report.

4. Hope you learned something from this

I have heard many good recommendations of the 'Learn in 21 days series', and this being my first book of that series, I would not recommend this. In these 21 days, you will get something done, but not learning or understanding how and why along the way. Instead of 1 star, I give this book 2 stars since it raised my confidence level when I closed the book in frustration and attempted through trial and error to figure out the problem and eventually solved it. I summarize this book as a 780 page reference manual with 10 pages of quality content.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unless you're a total novice: 21 Minutes worth of reading, July 10, 2000

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"johninjapan" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 in 21 Days (Paperback)

I bought this book as previous publications by SAM's have proved to be reasonably good but I was highly disappointed with this one. It would be acceptable if it were titled "Access 2000: An Overview" as it does have information that could be useful for absolute beginners. However, as it is severely lacking in depth, I think that it does not come anywhere living up to its title. I got less than 21 minutes worth of reading from the book.

Skip it or wait for the Second Edition.