Product Description

The goal of this text is to introduce learners to intermediate and advanced database concepts and design skills using Microsoft Access, while also covering a basic understanding of Microsoft Access. Through the projects in this text, learners model, design, implement, and maintain a fully functional prototype database for order fulfillment. Utilizing a comprehensive approach to creating Access databases, this text emphasizes the features in Microsoft Access for integrating Microsoft Access and Excel, as well as the new features in Access 2000 for building web-based solutions using Data Access Pages. This text is MOUS certified at the Expert level.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #874935 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

From the Back Cover

SELECT Lab Series: Advanced Projects for Microsoft Access 2000 is MOUS Certified at the Expert Level. It was written to introduce learners to intermediate and advanced database concepts and design skills using Microsoft Access, while also comprehensively covering a basic understanding of Microsoft Access. Through the projects in this text, learners model, design, implement and maintain a fully functional prototype database for order fulfillment. Utilizing a comprehensive approach to creating Access databases, this text emphasizes the features in Microsoft Access for integrating Microsoft Word and Excel data, as well as the new features in Access 2000 for building Web-based solutions using Data Access Pages.

PROVEN STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH

• A class-tested, task-based, highly visual approach makes it easy to clearly see and understand what you are doing as you work through each project—one step at a time. Each project is designed to be completed in a single class or lab session.
• Every project begins with a Running Case from SELECTIONS, Inc., a department store with locations nationwide. You'll also find a list of Objectives that identify what you will learn, the Challenge you will face as you complete the tasks in the project, a suggested Solution to take to accomplish the task, and the Setup that will help you get started on the right foot.
• Every project ends with a summary, key terms and operations, study questions, and hands-on exercises to help you reinforce and review what you have learned.

NEW FEATURES IN ACCESS 2000

Comprehensive coverage of Advanced Access 2000 Topics

Based upon feedback from instructors like you, the Select Advanced Access 2000 module covers a variety of topics beyond those required for MOUS certification. As you review the Table of Contents, you will be pleased with the comprehensive coverage of Access 2000 in this book.

Useful Appendix

The Select Advanced Access 2000 text includes a useful appendix, Working with Access. It covers database objects, Design view and Object view as well as using the Office Assistant. The goal is to provide a review of Access for students who need to brush up on their skills.

About the Author

DR. PHILIP A. KONEMAN

has over ten years of experience in computers and education. He is an Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems and Advanced Computer Applications at Colorado Christian University. His teaching responsibilities include Introduction to Computer Applications, where students learn the primary applications in Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition.

Dr. Koneman has a broad professional portfolio that includes a variety of activities outside the university. He assisted Nivo International in defining the MOUS Certification objectives for Office 2000. In addition to being an author on numerous Select modules; he is also the Series Consulting Editor for the entire Select series. Dr. Koneman is President of Instructional Design Consultants, Inc., a company that develops educational multimedia and provides consulting for curriculum design and educational measurement.

Dr. Koneman received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Denver, School of Education, Division of Instructional Technology. His research interests include computer-based learning, educational testing and measurement, and ethical issues in computers and technology. He is a certified Microsoft Office User Specialist for Office 2000.

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Customer Reviews

The best book on Access 2000 I have ever read!
If you only buy one book on MS Access, let it be this one. It comes in large, attractive, easy-to-read format and each chapter consists of hands-on, practical exercises on Access files you can download from the Internet. You can see yourself making progress from chapter to chapter, and this is where this book succeeds where others fail. I am studying for my Computing HNC and this book will be invaluable to me in my Database Design assignment. Highly recommended.

Fantastic book for would be designers
I am mostly a self taught user of Access and this is the first book, (and I've tried several), that sets out the design process and structure of Access with complete clarity. The book is broken down into manageable workshops each with a specific objective, the reader has to complete these tasks using the application before moving on. A the end of each workshop there is a summary section to review the task and some extra hands-on tasks for the reader to attempt by themselves.

If you learn by doing, and most people do, then this book is a useful guide to get you started.

The book I bought does not come with a floppy or CD-Rom
I bought this from another bookseller, I don't know if that matters. But if the book doesn't come with the practice files with it, the web site that the book refers to does not let you download the complete files that the book refers to.