Hands-on Microsoft Access: A Practical Guide to Improving Your Access Skills - Softcover

Schneider, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321245458 ISBN 13: 9780321245458

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005

Synopsis

A guide to Microsoft Access covers such topics as database design , building tables, displaying data, building queries, creating reports, and Pivot Tables.

About this title

About the Author

Bob Schneider has been a writer and editor for more than 25 years. Since 2001, he has been writing about Access for Smart Computing, one of the nation s leading computer magazines. For three years he served as editor-in-chief of Working Smarter with Microsoft Access, a biweekly newsletter that helps office staff use Access more productively. Prior to that, he was development editor for Access 95, 97, and 2000 textbooks published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill. He is based in San Francisco, CA.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Hands-On Microsoft Access

Bob has distilled the essence of database design and Access development into a highly valuable and easily understandable resource that I wish was available when I first started out.

Graham R. Seach, Microsoft Access MVP

If you ve been using Access with that typical uncertainty, asking yourself 'Just how could I do that?' or 'Why isn t this working?', if you d like to know what you re doing before you hit the wall, this book is probably perfect for you.

Olaf Rabbachin, CEO, IntuiDev IT-solutions

Life at the cutting edge of Access development is exciting and very challenging. The knowledge and experience gained over many years of research and trial-and-error has been hard won. But Bob's new book encapsulates the knowledge we now take for granted, and for the first time the beginner is afforded the opportunity to bypass all that hard work. In this his latest work, Bob has distilled the essence of database design and Access development into a highly valuable and easily understandable resource that I wish was available when I first started out.

Graham R Seach, MCP, MCAD, MCSD, Microsoft Access MVP, author

This is an excellent book for beginners, with an easy reading style. It is now on my recommended list of books that I hand out in every Access class that I teach.

M.L. Sco Scofield, Microsoft Access MVP, MCSD, Senior Instructor, Scofield Business Services

If you've been using Access with that typical uncertainty, asking yourself 'Just how could I do that?' or 'Why isn't this working?', or if you'd like to know what you're doing before you hit the wall, this book is perfect for you. Access is a tremendous product and a database is created using a few clicks; but without at least some theoretical background you're bound to encounter problems soon. I wish a book like this one would've been available when I started getting deeper into working with Access some ten years ago.

Olaf Rabbachin, CEO, IntuiDev IT-solutions

This book is for any level DB developer/user. It is packed full of real-world examples and solutions that are not the normal Northwind database that most Access books use. The examples and the technical content surrounding them are the real strength of the book. Schneider uses real-world scenarios that make for excellent reading. It made me want to go and redo a lot of my older Access DBs that were not written as well as they could have been. This book taught me different approaches to doing some routine tasks.

Ron Crumbaker, Microsoft MVP SMS

While a very powerful application (or perhaps because of its power), Microsoft Access does have a steep learning curve and can be intimidating to new users. Bob Schneider has managed to write a book that's both understandable and enjoyable to read. His examples should be understandable to all readers, and he extends them in a logical manner. This book should leave the reader well equipped to make use of what many consider to be the best desktop database product available.

Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP

The author takes what is potentially a very dry subject and adds fantastic color through entertaining analogies and metaphors. For instance, his examples using the NBA, the Beatles, and Donald Rumsfeld help us 'get it' without realizing we have just traversed what could be very st

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321245458
• ISBN 13: 9780321245458
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496