This work by the late Charlotte, N.C., author and philanthropist, Elizabeth S. Smith, presents an inspirational topic that has escaped previous aviation writers. The story of aviator Cochran's achievements, which reflect her determined character and desire to succeed, are highly readable, and energizing, to young people. Many 6-9th grade students continue to enjoy and benefit from this book.

Mastering Microsoft Access For Windows 95 is a well written state of the art guide for Database developers and managers. This book covers everything completely with the exception of Visual Basic. Great for linking, importing, and exporting data. J. Douglas James, Database Developer Everett, WA

This huge book (1000+ pages) coveres just about everything you want to know about MS Access. It starts from the very beginning explaining all the concepts needed to use Access successfully. The book goes into some intermidiate / advanced topics like creating a custom application. It's only serious weakness is covering Visaul Basic for applications. You may want to pick up another book (or read the manuals) introducing that topic.

I had originally bought the Paul Litwin, Ken Getz Access 95 Developer's Handbook and found myself in over my head. That book recommended the Mastering MS Access Book by Olson and Simpson. I have found that these two books put together pretty much cover all aspects and all levels in developing Access 95 applications. I have bought a 3rd Access book and have yet to find a need to open it with these two books put together.

Of Course I still refer to the online help. But the Help oftentimes will not help you unless you know what you're looking for, using the correct terminology. This is where the books come in.

Amateur Developer.

This tome would appear at first to be a good reference, and yet for some reason it isn't. It's up to the task for beginners, but as a programmer making the switch to Access 2K from previous versions of Access and other languages, this book simply isn't the right choice. I have yet to find a book that really approaches things from the right angle for someone migrationg from other languages or versions of Access. As usual it was a frustrating time where you know what you want to do, you could do it in another language and/or system, and you bought this book to help you. Yet you still end up spending precious time using trial and Error to find the right approach because unless you do things the books way, you are stuck.

Anyway, I have kept this one handy, it's still a useful reference, but really didn't fill the gap I needed.

This is a gr8 book for beginers of Access and/or Database devlopment. It takes you through all the steps of desgining and using a database. However, at times this book treats you as if you are a BEGINNER TO WINDOWS...so you might feal offended by the often appearences of instructions on how to create shortcuts, or customize a toolbar. If you're already familiar with the basics of Access, you might want to consider another book, or the second half of this book wil only come in usefull.

I had Mastering Access 97 and got my basics there, but got Mastering 2000 to see if any changes. These are the best books to start Access programming on a beginning level. I do not think I could ever grasp SQL on my own. This shows you how to let the program do all that for you with wizards and examples.

This book covers alot of territory with respect to Access 97. However, if you are new to relational databases and Access specifically, this book does not provide simple and coherent steps in creating databases using Access.
This book was used by a university database class of which I was a part and very few students actually found the book of much help. The index is confusing and has the reader jumping from chapter 1 to 25. I wish I had read a review of this work before dropping $65.00.

I have read most of the first 800 pages so far, and in just six days. The book is very readable. The topics flow smoothly so I seldom got confused in spite of the depth of material. Appears quite comprehensive, has enabled me to create queries and forms. No major complaints, and much more readable and helpful than another book on Access 97 I tried. The index is thorough, which is helpful

Well it may be LOONNGG AS HELL but if you've got the time and dedication you'll be a database guru! Even integrate it with your web store! This book and proggy is great! It is written in a very readable form even for the non-techie but you HAVE TO TAKE YOUR TIME and DO EVERYTHING IT ASKS YOU TO DO!! DON'T SKIP CHAPTERS!! You won't be a master overnight but it will definetly be worth it.