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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 in 21 Days Review by Longhaired Goddess
I should've returned this book when I saw read-only files
When I found that parts of the CDROM were read-only, I emailed the publisher. They emailed me back, saying they were not read-only. Two of the first five databases were unusable, and it took a long time to get past that.
I'm now about halfway through the book, and although the book started with some good, in-depth discussions, it has rapidly progressed to manipulations of reports and queries based on tables you don't understand the basis of. I wish we could be building one or more databases from scratch, so I could understand what I've done.
Oh, and some of the practice examples are already done, so you can't follow the directions to do them.
I can't wait to finish this book, so I can move on to something more useful. It barely touches on most topics, so there'll still be lots to learn before I can make any use of it.
I wish I'd gone to Amazon and read reviews, instead of browsing at the bookstore.