Microsoft Access 2000 2000 Complete package

Advantages: industry standard, very powerful for the price
Disadvantages: not user friendly, doesn't use all standards

Like it or not, Microsoft Access is probably the most widely used database programme there is. I have used it for years for various things – from analysing university project data for myself to powering full e-commerce websites. I also used to teach courses on it and I am writing this in particular for anyone who has an interest in computers and has an idea that they should learn about databases next, but doesn’t know where to start. ...
...that comes as part of Microsoft Office Professional (for which you pay about £50 extra) this is phenomenally powerful. Finally with Access you can also build “forms”, which are user-friendly ways of entering and searching for data. You’d probably recognise them – grey boxes with buttons and white bits to enter text and they are indeed user friendly, as long as you design them well. There is of course a price to pay for all ... Read review

Advantages: See above
Disadvantages: See above

I used Microsoft Access for a GCSE Information Systems project and was able to produce high quality output. Advantages 1. Setting up a new database for beginners is quite complex but once you know how to do it and with extra help provided onscreen it is easy to understand. 2. There is a wide range of verification techniques that can be used to make sure the data is put in to the database correctly. 3. Analysing - Calculations and complex interrogations ...
...linked with external data 18. Microsoft are the manufacturers of Windows which is the most widely used operating system and Word which is the most widely used word processor meaning the user interface will be familiar – icons, menus etc. 19. All data is saved as soon as the table/form/report is closed or a new record is used. This means that if the computer crashes or mistakes are made information is not lost. Disadvantages 1. If mistakes are ... Read review

Advantages: Very Poweful
Disadvantages: Difficult and daunting to learn at first

Microsoft Access is one of those products that to review properly would take you an entire encyclopedia to explain and rate all its features. So, I shall cover the major points only. I shall not provide any kind of manual, but rather compare the features and state their good and bad points. If you want and tips/help with anything like this then plese drop a note in my guest book and I'll hapily do my best to answer them. Also I appologise, in advance, ...
...As a stand-alone program Microsoft Access weighs in at around £200 - £300 pounds depending on where you buy it from. It also comes shipped with the Microsoft Office Suite (profesional edtion). To put it simply Access is a database program which allows you to store and manipulate data in a relational way, like a series of filing cabinets, except that these filing cabinates can interact with one another to avoid data duplication) For example it could ... Read review

Advantages: Successful upgrade to the MS Access series
Disadvantages: Access 97 users will not benefit from the upgrade.

Access 2000 is the next generation of the successful relational database system created by Microsoft. Introduction A relational databases uses table to store data in. Each table will carry data relating to a set. For instance one table may have a list of vendors, another table may have a list of orders. In a relational database, these two tables are ‘Joined’ or related to each other. In the example, the vendor number would be placed ...
...this number. Once the basic tables and data have been designed and input, Access 2000 allows you to build queries, forms and reports to control the input and output of data. Access allows you to connect to most types of relational databases, such as SQL Server or Oracle, and also includes a Jet engine, or the new cut down version of SQL Server for home use. Data can be imported or exported easily Tables A table is made up of rows and columns. ... Read review

Advantages: Very comprehensive, powerful and flexible
Disadvantages: Not intuitive like Word, or even Excel to a certain extent

...great list! Being a Microsoft product, it’s very easy to integrate Access with Excel and even Word. Lists within Excel can be either imported or remotely linked as tables. Data listed in queries can be linked back to fill in the blanks in Word documents. Let me give you an example that I’m quite proud of. Where I previously worked as a performance measurement manager, we were responsible for polling customers at the end of a lengthy ...
...The Project manager would give us all the usual customer details, which would be input by my staff on a database form. At the bottom of the form was a “button” programmed to load MS Word, open a specific document and, using the data in a query designed to pull out the latest record’s details, fill in all the blanks in the document so that a covering letter could be sent to the customer asking if he would be kind enough to complete ... Read review