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- Hands-On Microsoft Access: A Practical Guide to Improving Your Access Skills
- Hands-On Microsoft Access: A Practical Guide to Improving Your Access Skills
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Praise for Hands-On Microsoft Access
- Preface
- How Will This Book Help Me Use Access More Effectively?
- Is This Book Meant for Me?
- Why Is Understanding Database Principles So Essential for Using Access?
- How Is This Book Different from All Other Access Books?
- How Much Access Do I Need to Know to Use This Book?
- What Topics Does (and Doesn t) This Book Cover?
- How Should I Read This Book?
- What Teaching Devices Does This Book Use?
- Which Version(s) of Access Does This Book Cover?
- What s So Great About an Access Database Anyway?
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Chapter1.Getting Started
- Key Terms
- Data Types
- Primary Keys
- It s About Nothing: Null Values and Zero-Length Strings
- Conclusion
- Chapter2.Database Design
- Learning About Database Design
- Getting Started
- Midchapter Review
- Relational Database Principles
- Organizing Fields into Tables
- Refine the Fields
- Keys
- Multivalue Fields
- Conclusion
- Chapter3.Understanding Relationships
- The Primacy of Primary Keys
- One-to-Many Relationships
- Many-to-Many Relationships
- Final List of Fields and Relationships
- Exclusive Identification
- Refining Field Names
- Table Types
- What Is Normalization?
- Conclusion
- Chapter4.Establishing Relationships
- Viewing and Creating Relationships
- Referential Integrity
- Overriding Referential Integrity
- The Mechanics of the Relationship Window
- Test Data and Conclusion
- Case Example
- Chapter5.Building Tables
- Understanding Lookup Fields
- Creating Access Tables
- Creating Fields
- Assigning Field Properties
- Making Changes to Tables and Fields
- Table Properties
- Conclusion
- Case Example
- Chapter6.Entering, Editing, and Displaying Data
- Tables Are the Center of the Access Universe
- Data Entry in Table, Form, and Query Datasheets
- How Form Controls Inherit Field Characteristics
- Data Entry Methods
- Data Entry: Form Versus Substance
- Conclusion
- Case Example
- Chapter7.Find and Filter
- Find and Replace
- Filters
- Filters in Reports
- Expressions
- Conclusion
- Case Example
- Chapter8.Queries
- The Nature of Queries
- Building Queries
- Adding Calculated Fields
- Top Values Property
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Hands-On Microsoft Access(c) A Practical Guide to Improving Your Access Skills Authors: Schneider B. Published year: 2005 Pages: 1/169 |
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