Access
Access
Access
Definition:
1 What is database:
A database is a set of information distributed in many related tables and concerning a
specific subject such as:
o Sofitel management
o hotel management
o bank management
Note: we distribute data in many tables to avoid (prevent) repetition (data redundance).
We can manage all related information from a single data base file.
Tables, forms, queries, reports, macros, pages, and modules are called database
object.
Note: when you update into table it’s automatically updated every where it appears.
In these tables, we must respect that:
Each table should contain information about one subject.
We store fixed (permanent) information about students in one table, information about
professors in another one ...
A table should not contain duplicate (repeated) information.
In the table students, each student has only one first name, one last name ..., which
makes the data base more efficient and reduces the data-entry errors.
Exercises:
1. Fill in the blank with: DBMS: database management system
Module, DBMS, Empty, Query, Tables, Macro, Reports, Objects.
a) We store database information only in Tables.
b) Tables are related to each other according to the DBMS.
c) To print out the table information on paper we use the Reports database object.
d) The database is Empty means no tables, no forms, no reports and no any
another structures are available.
e) A Module is an object used in visual basic programming.
f) Query is an access database object.
g) Macro is an access database object used to execute some successive actions
many times.
h) Tables, queries, forms, macros and reports are Objects in access.