This provides a novice-oriented, step-wise, hand-holdd guided introduction to Access 2010 - and for that it does a good job. However, I don't recommend this book for anyone above the novice level of databases. For such users, this book will provide only a taste of what Access can do and leave the reader wanting more. There are other books available that provide a more thorough, technically-inclined introduction and I recommend the more technically-inclined Access novice to invest in one or more of those instead of this book.