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Microsoft Access Basics

Microsoft Access is a relational database application that allows users to enter, manage, and report on large amounts of data. It provides tools for creating databases, tables, queries, forms, and reports to help organize data. A database organizes data into tables which contain records made up of fields and rows. This allows users to enter, search for, and analyze data more quickly and easily than with other applications.

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Microsoft Access Basics

Microsoft Access is a relational database application that allows users to enter, manage, and report on large amounts of data. It provides tools for creating databases, tables, queries, forms, and reports to help organize data. A database organizes data into tables which contain records made up of fields and rows. This allows users to enter, search for, and analyze data more quickly and easily than with other applications.

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Microsoft Access

Abby Weitkamp

What is Access?

Its an easy-to-use tool for quickly creating browser-based database


applications that help you run your business.

Access is a relational database application that lets you enter, manage and
run reports on large amounts of data.

You will need to learn how to use a database, including entering data into
forms and tables, running queries to search data, and producing meaningful
reports.

What can you do with Access?

Databases

Objects

Tables

Queries

Forms

Reports

Records

What is a database?

Database: A collection of data that is stored in a computer

A database allows users to enter, access, and analyze their data quickly and
easily.

Considered a collection of lists, therefore the more lists you have the more
complicated the database

A database organizes its lists of data by in tables.

Why use a database?

Access is better to use when organizing non-numerical data

A database understands how lists and objects relate or recognize a


relationship a human would but not a normal computer program

In conclusion, because databases relate you can enter, search for, and analyze
data better and quicker

What is an object?

Object:

An item that allows you to enter, store, analyze, compile, etc. your data however
you want

The four objects are tables, queries, forms, and reports

Tables: connected lists made of columns (field- way of organizing information


by type) and rows (record- unit of information)

Forms: used for entering, modifying, and viewing records

Queries: way of searching and compiling data form one or more tables, its
like asking a question to your database

Reports: offer ability to present data in and easy-to-read format formed from
a table or query

What are records?

A record is a unit of information

To organize records, you can use the sort and filter commands

Works Cited

"Free Access 2013 Tutorial at GCFLearnFree."GCFLearnFree.org. GCF, n.d.


Web. 27 Oct. 2015.

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