Microsoft Access Training - Sam's teach yourself?

[AndrewRW]

I'm looking at training a few members of staff on Access - and I'm considering using Sam's teach yourself microsoft access 2002 in 21 days as a self-paced learning tool.

Has anyone had experience with this book? Or are there other books/methods that you'd recommend to get people up-and-running?

cheers,
Andrew.

 

[Fubear]

I use two books:

Access Cookbook - O'Reilly
This is a very simplistic "See Spot Run" style approach. Its not a tutorial, but rather has practical solutions to problems you are likely to come across.

Access Developers Handbook - SyBex (I think)
This comes in two, two inch thick volumes. You can pick them up as a boxed set. This is more of an access dictionary, you wont learn much from reading them cover to cover, but if you have a specific problem then you can look it up and 99% of the time you will find your solution.

Between these two books I can solve most of my problems, anything else I ask about on this website. I thnk the only thing lacking from these books is a VBA introduction.

Conincedentally, I just noticed that two of the three authors for each book actually worked on both of them.

 

[AndrewRW]

Thanks Fubear. They sound good, but I guess I'm really after a "tutorial/module" based approach for training-which is what Sam's seems to provide.

Cheers