Access Data Analysis Cookbook: Slicing and Dicing to Find the Results You Need

by Ken Bluttman, Wayne S. Freeze

If you have large quantities of data in a Microsoft Access database, and need to study that data in depth, this book is a data cruncher's dream. Access Data Analysis Cookbook offers practical recipes to solve a variety of common problems that users have with extracting Access data and performing calculations on it. Each recipe includes a discussion on how and why the solution works.

Whether you use Access 2007 or an earlier version, this book will teach you new methods to query data, different ways to move data in and out of Access, how to calculate answers to financial and investment issues, and more. Learn how to apply statistics to summarize business information, how to jump beyond SQL by manipulating data with VBA, how to process dates and times, and even how to reach into the Excel data analysis toolkit. Recipes demonstrate ways Access Data Analysis Cookbook is a one-stop-shop for extracting nuggets of valuable information from your database, and anyone with Access experience will benefit from these tips and techniques, including seasoned developers. If you want to use your data, and not just store it, you'll find this guide indispensable.

366 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Red · Rating 2 out of 5]

I usually fined the books from O'Rielly publishing to be very helpful. I found this one to be a bit simplistic, and just not what I was looking for. Not nearly as many examples or "recipes" as I would have hoped.