Resources
Companion website for the text (5th edition)Tutorials on selected chapters, MS Access lab manual, DreamHome Web implementation, etc.
MS Access tutorials
- Get to know Access: A course at office.Microsoft.com
- Microsoft Access 2007, 2010 and 2013 Tutorial at Holowczak.com
- Microsoft Access Tutorials at GCFLearnFree.org
SQL
- Beaulieu, A. (2005). Learning SQL. O'Reilly. E-book available through the U of A Libraries
- A Gentle Introduction to SQL Interactive SQL tutorial
- SQLCourse Interactive Online SQL Training for Beginners
- SQL Tutorial at w3schools.com Introduction and tutorial
Databases (General)
- Databases at about.com Basics and tutorials
- Database Bootcamp "This material is designed for students with little or no formal database education, training, or experience. The goal of this course is to prepare you to learn how to develop database applications using tools such as Microsoft Access, FoxPro, or Oracle."
- Database Directory "... a website devoted to the most popular Relational Database Management Systems like MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MS Access." "... short reviews of each of these databases describing their features, application, scalability, performance," and "... various database related articles discussing topics like Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Text Mining, Database Development, SQL, Data Recovery and many more."
- Database Security "... the World's Leading Resource on Database Security"
- Introduction to Data Modeling
- Introduction: Relational data modeling for data architecture One of the IBM tutorials.
- Geekgirl's Databases from scratch I: Introduction, II: Simple Database Design, and III: The Design Process
- Wikipedia article on Databases Note: there are many other related Wikipedia articles: follow the above links and then "see also"
- MySQL Homepage "The world's most popular open source database"