Good book to help me learn ACCESS 2003

[Iced Tea]

I am interested in learning ACCESS 2003. I am wanting a to know if anyone
could provide me with a list of books that would aid me in teaching myself.
I thought about taking a couple of classes at the local community college;
but I figured in the long run I could buy several books cheaper than it
would cost to take the classes.

Thanks for everyone's help.
Carl

 

[chessbishop]

Iced Tea,

Forgive me for not addressing your question directly, but you should focus
on Access 2007 not 2003. It is way more robust and will save you lots of time
in learning it and developing the database.

Secondly, read by yourself as an introduction to the DBMS but after getting
a grasp of it take an intermediate or above class. The opportunity to ask
questions and the networking (jobs, money) opportunities are worth the time
and money.

Good luck.

Regards,
Chessbishop

 

[Tom]

Microsoft Access 2003 Inside Out by John L. Viescas
Microsoft Access 2003 by Alison Baliter

These are two of many good books out there on Access 2003.

One persons opinion.

tom

 

[John W. Vinson]

I am interested in learning ACCESS 2003. I am wanting a to know if anyone
could provide me with a list of books that would aid me in teaching myself.
I thought about taking a couple of classes at the local community college;
but I figured in the long run I could buy several books cheaper than it
would cost to take the classes.

Thanks for everyone's help.
Carl

Here are some pointers to resources, including many books:

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

Learning styles differ - a book that's great for me might be annoying for you
and vice versa. It may be worthwhile spending a couple of hours at a good
bookstore; pull a stack of Access books off the shelf, get a latte or a cup of
tea, and browse through them. Try to answer some specific question using each
book (to test the index and table of contents, crucial features that are all
too often overlooked); see if the explanations and examples work for you.

And there is nothing better than experience working with real problems (with
guidance and advice, from books or online tutorials or this newsgroup) to keep
from going too far astray.

 

[Tom Wickerath]

It is way more robust ...

Excuse me??? Is this your opinion, or fact? Did you get your facts from
Microsoft, by any chance?

Access 2007 is *NOT* more robust than Access 2003. One only need look at the
plethora of hotfixes for A2007 as evidence.


Tom Wickerath
Microsoft Access MVP
http://www.accessmvp.com/TWickerath/
http://www.access.qbuilt.com/html/expert_contributors.html
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