Microsoft Access

When using ms 2007 all you have to do is press the insert tab the press new page and it will add the page where ever your courser is.

Yes, MS Access is a relational database management system (RDBMS).

RDBMS is a special type of database management system that stores data in form of related tables. It is differ from flat file databases because it uses several tables for a single database.

Advantages include built-in usability wizards, cost, and saving database information to a single file. Disadvantages include not having multi-user functionality, being slow when using maximum data, and inability for a database to contain over two GB of data.

.accdb is the file extension for Microsoft Access and has been used since Access 2007. The previous file extension was .mdb.

bilal says

MS ACCESS MAIN OBJECTS ARE

TABLES HAVE OTHER OBEJECTS FIELDS , ETC

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In the business world Microsoft Access (a database) is used for billing customers, keeping track of inventory, creating statistics on consumer preferences. You can store large amounts of data, access it quickly and use filters and queries to find only the data you need. Scientists, government workers, and law enforcement use it to create statistics, make predictions, and even match finger prints. Computerized card catalogs in libraries are databases that allow you to quickly find books or articles on a certain topic. Databases are widely used in many industries, but students are not usually taught to use them. Microsoft Access often scares people because of the complex tasks it can perform. However, if it is use in its simplest form, students can understand and use it easily. I have used it with students from grades 3-8. They do scavenger hunts, map skills activities, scientific data collection and analysis, simulations, and more. This required me to create curriculum related databases. They are now part of a book entitled Database Magic published ISTE. (available through ISTE.org & Amazon.com) This book shows you how you can make a simple database using Access. It includes 16 databases in the science, social studies, language arts, and history areas. Ready-to-use worksheets are also provided. It is a fun way to help students to learn a skill that is so necessary for their futures. Sandra Dounce , Sandrad731@comcast.net

Top-values query

The primary key.

Stacked Layout

One can find Microsoft access help when one goes to the website of Microsoft Office, Universal Tech Support, Fix Now, etc. One can get live chat on these sites.

Inset Into your_table ( fileld1, field2,.....,fieldn) values (value1,value2,.....,value n)

Criterion

The purpose of a query is to extract information from a table or tables, which can be based on some criteria. It can be something simple, like list all names in a table, or something a little more complex, like list all products that are priced over certain amount. A query can be very simple or very complex, depending on your requirements.

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I took the same quiz. The answer is "sort" (I got it wrong because I said arrange [serioussly this is rediculous!])

It has the ability to set up relational databases. In very simple terms, that means different tables can be connected together through relationships. You could have a table of members of staff and a table of the names of the departments in the company they work in. Then you could make a connection between each member of staff and the details of the department they work in. Why and how you do this and its advantages can take a lot of explanation. You can do a course on relational databases, such is the amount of detail involved, so it is not simple to give a full explanation here. It would also be important to be able to demonstrate it, which cannot be done in an answer like this.

When viewing records in MS Access, a form view will display only one record at a time. In order to view more records at a time, one should use list view.

Yes. This is mainly done through queries, but can also be done in forms and reports. A lot of databasing is based on doing calculations on stored data. A general rule on databases is that you do not store anything that can be calculated from existing data. So if you are storing dates of birth, there is no need to store ages, as the age of someone can always be calculated from their date of birth. Also, an age won't change if you literally type it into a database. So if you typed in someone's age into a database and did not look at it for a few years, the next time you open it, the person's age would still show the same as when you typed it in. Whereas if you have their date of birth stored, you can always calculate their age immediately with a simple calculation, on a form or a report or a query. Once you have today's date, which can be got direct from your computer, and a date of birth, it is easy to calculate an age.

The same idea would apply with things like wages or tax. All you need are the base values and once you have those you can get the database to do the calculations to find the figures you need. If you have a wage and a tax rate, or the amount of hours someone has worked and the rate per hour, you can calculate the pay from those, so the pay doesn't necessarily have to be stored. To the end user who will see the output, it will look like the data is actually there, but it isn't and doesn't need to be. So if something can be calculated using the data you already have, then do it as a calculation when a query is run, a form or report opened, rather than storing it unnecessarily. There will be times when you need to store calculated data, but more often that not, it doesn't need to be. So as you can see, calculations are very important in databases and the facilities are there to use them.

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