Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Access 2003

Introduction

In this chapter

• Who Should Read This Book

• How This Book Is Organized

• How This Book Is Designed

• Typographic Conventions Used in This Book

• System Requirements for Access 2003

• Other Sources of Information for Access

Microsoft Office Access 2003 (version 11.0, called Access 2003 in this book) is a powerful, robust, and mature 32-bit relational database management system (RDBMS) for creating desktop and client/server database applications that run under Windows XP/2000+. As a component of the Professional and Professional Enterprise editions of Microsoft Office System 2003, Access 2003 has an upgraded user interface that’s consistent with the other members of the Office 2003 suite.

Access has vanquished all desktop relational database management ...