Access 2016 For Dummies (Access for Dummies) by Laurie Ulrich Fuller

by Laurie A. Ulrich

Your all-access guide to all things Access 2016 If you don't know a relational database from an isolationist table--but still need to figure out how to organize and analyze your data--"Access 2016 For Dummies" is for you. Written in a friendly and accessible manner, it assumes no prior Access or database-building knowledge and walks you through the basics of creating tables to store your data, building forms that ease data entry, writing queries that pull real information from your data, and creating reports that back up your analysis. Add in a dash of humor and fun, and "Access 2016 For Dummies" is the only resource you'll need to go from data rookie to data pro!This expanded and updated edition of "Access For Dummies" covers all of the latest information and features to help data newcomers better understand Access' role in the world of data analysis and data science. Inside, you'll get a crash course on how databases work--and how to build one from the ground up. Plus, you'll find step-by-step guidance on how to structure data to make it useful, manipulate, edit, and import data into your database, write and execute queries to gain insight from your data, and report data in elegant ways. Speak the lingo of database builders and create databases that suit your needs Organize your data into tables and build forms that ease data entry Query your data to get answers right Create reports that tell the story of your data findingsIf you have little to no experience with creating and managing a database of any sort, "Access 2016 For Dummies" is the perfect starting point for learning the basics of building databases, simplifying data entry and reporting, and improving your overall data skills.

Genres: Nonfiction

Unknown Binding

First published October 26, 2015

Reviews

[Alyssia Cooke · Rating 3 out of 5]

This had everything I needed to make myself a functional database and I flew through it in about three days at work... so why only three stars? Because I have never been patronised so much in all my life by a book. Yes, I get it, I need things basic because I am no computer whizz kid, but there's such a thing as taking it too far and this particular text crosses the line, time after time after time. I skipped full pages, not because I didn't need the function, but simply because I didn't need the same basic information repeated to me on how to save something for the eighteenth time. Nor did I need a two page walkthrough on how to find the Access program on my computer. I need a dummies guide to Access, not to computers as a whole.

There were some really good tips in here and that's all that saved this from a two star review, but there's a difference between giving adults who need help a 'dummies guide' and seriously assuming that you are talking to a five year old who doesn't yet know how to wipe their own arse. This does the latter and it becomes excruciatingly annoying.

But hey. I now have a database and I'm about to get started on the Access 2016 Bible, so hopefully I'll progress from kindergarten to secondary school in no time!

[Tiago Yang]

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