Alison's a gifted teacher

I've personally known Alison for many years, and I've always thought of her as a gifted teacher. I recently bought this book to see what she's been up to lately, and was pleased to see how well she's covered a very difficult subject. From personal experience I can tell you it's very hard to explain database development. Microsoft Access is one of those subjects that initially seems so simple but quickly beomes quite difficult to learn. It seems as though you have to know everything before you can learn anything. The "24 Hours" book design really didn't permit Alison to go into lots of detail on every subject, but every topic she covers is done well. I'm very sure she carefully chose which topics to cover, and had to be selective in the amount of detail she provided. Really, given only 24 hours to learn Microsoft Access, no one should expect to learn all there is to know about such a complex topic. I highly recommend the 24 Hours book to anyone just starting with Access, or anyone who has a very limited time to get up to speed with this terrific database development system.
For those who need to go beyond the "24 Hours" book's coverage, I suggest you look at "Alison Balter's Mastering Microsoft Office Access 2003". The Mastering book is a very complete reference to Access, and complements the 24 Hours book very well.

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