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Identify Good Database Design

Identify Good Database Design. A database is an organized collection of data —facts about people, events, things, or ideas—related to a specific topic or purpose. Information is data that is organized in a useful manner. Identify Good Database Design.

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Identify Good Database Design

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  1. Identify Good Database Design • A database is an organized collection of data—facts about people, events, things, or ideas—related to a specific topic or purpose. • Information is data that is organized in a useful manner.

  2. Identify Good Database Design • Use good design techniques when creating a new database. • Determine the information you want to keep track of to create a new database. • Ask yourself, “What questions should this database be able to answer for me?” • The purpose of a database is to store data in a manner that makes it easy for you to get the information you need.

  3. Create a Table and Define Fields in a New Blank Database

  4. Create a Table and Define Fields in a New Blank Database

  5. Create a Table and Define Fields in a New Blank Database • Renaming fields and changing data types

  6. Create a Table and Define Fields in a New Blank Database • Adding a record to a table

  7. Create a Table and Define Fields in a New Blank Database • Importing data to an existing Access table

  8. Create a Table and Define Fields in a New Blank Database

  9. Change the Structure of Tables and Add a Second Table • Deleting a table field in Design view

  10. Change the Structure of Tables and Add a Second Table • Viewing a primary key in design view

  11. Change the Structure of Tables and Add a Second Table • Adding a second table to a database by importing an Excel spreadsheet

  12. Create and Use a Query, Form, and Report • A query is a database object that retrieves specific data from one or more database objects—either tables of other queries. • A form is an Access object with which you can enter data, edit data, or display data from a table or a query.

  13. Create and Use a Query, Form, and Report

  14. Create and Use a Query, Form, and Report

  15. Create and Use a Query, Form, and Report • A report is a database object that displays the fields and records from a table or a query in an easy-to-read format suitable for printing.

  16. Create and Use a Query, Form, and Report

  17. Save and Close a Database • When you close an Access table, any changes made to the records are saved automatically. • You will be prompted to save changes to design of the table or the layout of Datasheet view.

  18. Create a Database Using a Template • A database template contains pre-built tables, queries, forms, and reports to perform a specific task. • You do not have to create the objects. • All you need to do is enter your data and modify the pre-built objects to suit your needs.

  19. Organize Objects in the Navigation Pane

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