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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 in 24 Hours
by Timm Buchanan; Craig Eddy
Sams, Macmillan Computer Publishing
ISBN: 0672312891 Pub Date: 04/29/99
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Table of Contents
Introduction
by Craig Eddy
Welcome to Sams Teach Yourself Access 2000 in 24 Hours, a teach-yourself guide to one of the most
widely-used desktop database management systems. In this book, you’ll learn the basics of working with
Access 2000 in 24 chapters that should take about one hour each to complete.
I first began working with Access back in the dark ages of Access 2.0. At the time, I was working as a
hardware design engineer who had drifted into programming Windows-based tools to aid our engineering
efforts. Most of what I did as an engineer involved databases of one kind or another: tracking parts available
from manufacturers, parts we had in our inventory system, parts we had in stock, parts used on my projects,
and so on. Because I was programming in Visual Basic, which contains all the tools necessary to
manipulate Access databases, Access was the natural choice as a database.
Access has come a long way since version 2.0. The latest version, Access 2000, has Internet capabilities,
the ability to work with a SQL Server back-end database, and a greatly improved built-in database engine.
The book you hold in your hands covers everything you need to know about Access 2000 up to a
moderately advanced level. If you have no experience whatsoever with databases, have no fear. We cover
all the basics of working with existing databases, as well as designing your own original databases. If
you’re already familiar with other database platforms, you’ll still learn a lot from this book about working
with databases in Access 2000.
We start by explaining how to familiarize yourself with an existing database. After the basics of working
within the Access 2000 environment have been covered, we move on to modifying existing databases.
Finally, we cover how to create a new database. In the closing sections of the book, you’ll learn about some
more advanced topics, such as combining Access with other Office 2000 applications or creating Web
pages for your data.
The examples presented in this book are based on the Northwind Traders sample database that is included
with Access 2000. This means that an accompanying CD-ROM is not necessary. These examples are based
on the kinds of tables, queries, forms, and reports that will be familiar to most people who create databases
for common business applications.
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