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From: ge@mcnc.org (George Entenman)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: What book for course with Paradox?
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Date: 5 Sep 90 02:33:32 GMT
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In article <2223@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> byock@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Bill Yock,134G LC,3355553,) writes:
>
>I would recommend ...
>	"The Paradox 3.0 Handbook" is by Douglas Cobb, Jeff Yocum, and Brian
>Smith, publisher Bantam Books.

I agree that this book is very comprehensive.  However, it should be
pointed out that this book is poorly indexed, and the table of contents
is skimpy.  The index is long and looks good (one reason that I
bought it), but it simply leaves out too much.  For example, the entry
for the ADD command fails to mention the chapter on Multitable
Operations (chapt 9), which devotes its first 20 pages or so to this
command.

I feel that I had to sit down and read this book like a novel from
cover to cover to get all of its meat.  I've taken to sticking post-it
notes in it to find useful places and to writing my own entries into
the index.

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