Running Microsoft Access

By John L. Viescas

This tutorial and reference begins with a discussion of database principles, and proceeds to acquaint the reader with the basic features and functionality of Access, including NWIND, a small example database that ships with the product. data-rich life: designing the database; working with the data (finding, sorting, querying); designing, building and using forms; and building and presenting reports. The last third of the book enters more advanced territory, teaching how to create a simple application, discussing network-related issues, and introducing Access' programming language. principles of managing data, and provides common-sense explanations of how a relational database works. This approach reaches its culmination in an appendix that shows several basic database schemas - that is, blueprints for the fundamental ways in which different types of data relate, and thus blueprints for designing one's databases.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556155077
• ISBN13: 9781556155079
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The Second Database Book You Should Buy

When you finish this book, you will actually be able to write a database--that is, if you work through all the examples. And who wouldn't work through all the example programs in a computer book if they really wanted to know how to use a program? The examples that you work through are also on the included CD-ROM, so if you get lost, you can see how the database should be properly written. The database on the CD-ROM is a fully functioning database. By referring to it, you can learn how a database should work. I knew nothing about databases when I bought this book, and now I am writing databases. I refer to this book constantly, and rarely refer to the Microsoft manuals included with Access. Obviously, I recommend this book, which is the second excellent Viescas' book I've used. The first database book you should buy? Database Design for Mere Mortals by Mike Hernandez.