Access 2003 Personal Trainer [With CDROM]

I have bought the whold set of these book for my library and they are great reference. Access can be mastered with this help. Recommend

I love the book! help me to pass the exam and got a certificate

This is another book in the new series from O'Reilly Media, Inc. featuring a larger format and two-color printing. The concept is to teach the Access program in bite-sized lessons of two or three pages each, describing in detail all steps necessary to perform a given operation. Every exercise is accompanied by screen captures, which are captioned to show every step of the process. As with any database program, Access 2003 can be hard to learn. This book is well-suited to self-teaching, and provides an effective method of mastering the Access application. If you need to learn Access, this is your best resource.

Many typical power users tend to use Excel as a psuedo-database because Access is perceived to be much more difficult. O'Reilly's new book Access 2003 Personal Trainer by CustomGuide helps address that complexity. Chapter List: The Fundamentals; Creating and Working with a Database; Finding, Filtering, and Formatting Data; Working with Tables and Fields; Creating Relational Databases; Working with Queries; Working with Forms; Working with Reports; Formatting Forms and Reports; Working with Macros; Advanced Topics; Index The Personal Trainer series uses a comic book-style "superhero" motif as the overall theme. But even though the cover doesn't look all that serious, the content is very well done. Once you're into the chapters, the only hint at the theme is a cartoon face attached to a dialog bubble for the Quick Reference material. So if you're thinking the book isn't serious or doesn't have solid writing, give it a second glance. Each chapter is a series of lessons with objectives and a number of tasks. At the end, you get a lesson summary, a quiz to test your comprehension, and some homework to stretch your newly-obtained skills. And best of all, there's a CD in the book that has Access simulation software so you can do the training without necessarily having the full Access 2003 package installed wherever you're at. Definitely a big plus... I personally thought the writer(s) did a great job of managing the balance between theory and practical knowledge. It's easy when you're an IT professional to get bogged down in all the relational database terms and concepts, whether something's in 2nd or 3rd normal form, and so forth. This book isn't going to make you ready to design the FBI's latest crime database (or maybe it will, since the professionals didn't do such a hot job either), but it will give you enough knowledge to catalog your wine cellar or track the books you've read. On top of that, you'll be able to build forms for data entry and generate reports to figure out what you've got or what you've done. Basically, this book can take you from information to knowledge. This is a pretty good title, and one I'd definitely recommend for someone who wants to get some exposure to relational database systems...

I have always been curious about learning Access but was always intimidated by the program. I finally decided to teach myself so I ordered this Personal Trainer book and receveived I really received a lot more than I expected. I can only say that the interactive CD that accompanies this manual makes this manual worth its weight in gold. To be honest, I started reading the manual, but once I learned about what the CD contained, I learned the rest from CD. I just keep the book by my desk as a handy reference. I really enjoyed this book, and look forward to ordering an Excel Personal Trainer book as well if it contains the same interactive CD.