Book for beginner

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David M.St.Onge

Can anyone recommend a good book for someone that is just learning Access
2003?
Thanks
DMSO
 
Can anyone recommend a good book for someone that is just learning Access
2003?
Thanks
DMSO
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Which book depends on which beginner... do you have extensive database design
experience? none? Lots of experience with Excel or Word Macros? None at all?

There are lots of references at these sites: browse around and see if you can
find something useful. Or, go to a good bookstore and sit down with a stack of
Access books; browse through them and see which work well for you.

One you might want to start with is _Access <version> Inside and Out_ by
Viescas and Conrad.

Jeff Conrad's resources page:
http://www.accessmvp.com/JConrad/accessjunkie/resources.html

The Access Web resources page:
http://www.mvps.org/access/resources/index.html

A free tutorial written by Crystal (MS Access MVP):
http://allenbrowne.com/casu-22.html

MVP Allen Browne's tutorials:
http://allenbrowne.com/links.html#Tutorials
 
I used Access for Dummies. It really helps.
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It's a good, well written book... if what you want to do is *use* an existing
Access database. In my brief reading of it, it really doesn't provide much
guidance for designing and building a new database. YMMV!
 
John W. Vinson said:
It's a good, well written book... if what you want to do is *use* an
existing
Access database. In my brief reading of it, it really doesn't provide much
guidance for designing and building a new database. YMMV!
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I must agree with John. I've never owned a copy of it, but I have spent some
time looking it over in bookstores. It appears to be quite good at helping
users, but lacks the depth for designing a database. One of the other good
books that I can recommend on general database design is:

Database Design for Mere Mortals by Michael J. Hernandez

http://tinyurl.com/6hg6uz
 
Well thanks to everyone for the input, it seems like you all agree on one
book. So I will start there, Thanks a lot for the help.
DMSO
 
John W. Vinson said:
It's a good, well written book... if what you want to do is *use* an
existing
Access database. In my brief reading of it, it really doesn't provide much
guidance for designing and building a new database. YMMV!
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