Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Office Access 2003 in 24 Hours

Chapter 7. Designing Databases

Many developers believe that because Access is a rapid application development environment, there's absolutely no need for system analysis or design when creating an application. I couldn't disagree more. Access applications are deceptively easy to create. Without proper planning, they can become disasters. In this hour you'll learn about the following:

• Analyzing the tasks you are automating

• The data analysis and design phase of the development process

• Prototyping and why it is important

• The steps in the testing process

• Successfully implementing an application

• The maintenance phase of an application

Task Analysis

Data Analysis ...