Databases

Access 2003 Bible

Format: Paperback
Author: Cary N. Prague
ReleaseDate: 03 October, 2003
Publisher: Wiley
Rating:

Good for intermediate users.
Good instruction, great index, and an excellent accompanying cd with exercises and additional information. Considering that it's only one volume, this book is about as comprehensive as you can get. The book itself could have been more concise, though. At times it's repetative and redundant, but for no other reason than to clarify the author's methodolgy behind the current lesson. Being an intermediate user, this was a great book; however, if you consider yourself advanced, I'd skip this and try to find something more specific. This isn't really a great book for beginners either; you'd probably find it a bit overwhelming and the terminology a bit confusing. Regardless, it's a great reference tool for any user, and I recommend it.

Not as good as you might think
I was disappointed with the earlier versions in that they did not go into macros and VBA as much as I wanted. I have had "Bibles" of the last 3 versions of Access. I was overjoyed that this version does, but found many problems. All the books in the "Bible" series have problems with proofing. There are too many typos. Even a section on spell check in this book had the wrong words entered for the spell check. The bigger problem is with the examples provided on the CD. Some files are missing in the chapters. And the coding does not always work. I tried to program a personal project using a much-needed procedure and could not get it or my lesson to work. What a surprise - the completed project that was provided on the CD did not work either. Wiley needs to proof and test more before going to press. Also a little too high level for beginner Access users - assumes that the average user understands the VBA terms and their applications.

ACCESS Bible
All I would have needed!. This was third helper I found--it should have been the first.