Their main limitation is that they use examples drawn from commercial applications. The following is visual and helpful. Que also appear to update this series to take account of new versions of the software. I have found the following much the best when you begin to understand Access, with good coverage and reasonably widely ranging examples. There are good manuals with Access once you have got over the first hurdles of using the package.
Most users find it easy to use and the manuals sufficiently good to learn from.
Back to index SQL SQL has a number of 'flavours' so for the full range of commands you will need the manuals for the software used. The books do provide good introductions to the language and if you need SQL then one of these will be essential for reference. One useful way to learn is to follow worked examples in one of the books - or to devise queries using the visual interface of Access or Ms Query and inspect the result in SQL view. There are also several useful chapters on design of relational databases. James R. Groff and Paul N. Weinberg, Using SQL, Osborne McGraw Hill, 1990.