Using Microsoft Access 97

by Roger Jennings

Book Overview

This second edition is a tutorial, where readers will learn how to build Access 97 databases from scratch and work with existing databases. The book is also a reference because after readers have... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789709163
• ISBN13: 9780789709165
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 1284 Pages
• Weight: 4.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Superlative book for beginner to intermediate users

If you are learning Access from the ground up this is a great book for you...this is not a VBA programming guide. If you want to learn VBA that is an entirely different topic. However, there is no one Access/VBA magic book that can cover everything because the Access/VBA universe is so large. I have used Access and VBA for 6 years and this by far covers more topics than most other books do. I use this book as a reference on occasion and it is often borrowed off my shelf by the end users here at my company. Although there is some VBA code and advanced items in this book I would recommend this book to beginners and intermediate users of Access. The book covers: tables, queries, forms, reports, macros, and some VBA code (modules). There is also a little bit of Internet programming with Access 97 but that section is out-of-date with the advent of ASP.Bottom line is this is an excellent choice for a reference book for more advanced users and an even better choice for people looking to learn a lot about Access 97.

Excellent! Thoroughly!

This book is excellent because it thoroughly described MS Access 97. It is a valuable reference book. I give this book five stars!

A very good book about Access with lots of theory.

This book was my introduction to Access 97.As such, it did a fine job of explaining concepts of databases and Access. Found some of the examples and walk throughs to be needlessly confusing, as they were not in a logically progressive order. Took me a week to learn how to setup a workgroup for a split database on a network. Now that I know it, it should have taken me at most 20 minutes! Such a simple thing made so complicated.... Otherwise, it's a great resource.

Wonderful Tool for Access Users

I puchased the 1st book and the Special Edition and would recommend them to anyone. Yes, they do have a lot of information and if you are not sure what you are trying to accomplish you are going to be lost. I personnally would never purchase any of the "Dummies" books because they are confusing and I have never found they very helpful. They really are for dummies. If you have a high intelligence and can understand what you are reading then I would recommend that you purchase one of these books. Depending on your version of Access you will have to choose one that applies. They have been very helpful to me and since I have never taken a class in Access and am self taught they have helped me design the 3 databases that my company currently uses in our business.

An Excellent look at the capabilities and uses of Access97

I have used Roger Jennings books on Access since Access Ver 2.0. I find these books to be very thorough and well written. They are designed to be both a study guide and a reference manual and I feel these books fulfill both functions very well. As long as Roger Jennings is writing books on Access, I will consider no others unless they are very specialized in only 1 aspect of Access use. This book is among the best written books on any computer topic that I have seen. I wish we had more authors like Roger Jennings.... We would definitely have less confusion in the computer industry. Definitely a best buy in my opinion