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Microsoft Access Database Fundamentals
This material is an introductory tutorial on Microsoft Access database fundamentals. The site is part of The About network which consists of hundreds of sites organized into 23 channels covering more than 50,000 subjects. The site offers relevant links, how-to's, forums, and answers to questions in addition to the tutorial. The tutorial examines three of the major components of Access that most database users will encounter ? tables, queries, forms.
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An informal, and very brief, introduction to the software package Microsoft
Access. It can be read in five minutes or so.
The author provides tiny tastes of database technology illustrated with examples
from Access, referring to tables, queries, forms and reports. The references
are illustrated with Access screen shots, but none are longer than a paragraph
or two.
The author refers to the products FileMaker Pro, Oracle and SQL Server in the
same sentence that he introduces access, but other than using the word
'professional' when later referring to SQL Server, does not address the
significant differences in capabilities and targetted users between these
products.
The author provides a few links to some in-depth Access tutorials and the other
products mentioned above, but nothing about relational / SQL databases in
general. The reader has no way of placing Access within the context of other
database products.
It is clear that the author, writing some kind of web column, has a limited
format in which to work. Thus the article is also limited.