January 2002
Beginner
576 pages
13h 23m
English
When this book speaks of obtaining data from outside sources, it is referring to a broader scope than customers, clients, WAN, e-mail, external mainframe, or Internet sources. Outside sources can be within your company or even within your department. The term “outside” refers to anything outside of Microsoft Access. What do you do with data that you have not personally tested for consistency, accuracy, and integrity? Even if you created the data yourself with a program like Microsoft Excel, how do you know that it conforms to the rules of “database normalization” (discussed in “Avoiding Duplicate Data” later in this chapter) for database design when imported into Access?
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