October 2005
Beginner
396 pages
7h 27m
English
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Chapter 1. Creating Databases
IN THIS CHAPTER, YOU’LL CREATE YOUR FIRST DATABASE, from the initial concept to a full-fledged Access file. Using Access’s Order Entry template as an example, you’ll learn how to set up all the types of database fields to give you the information you want, when you want it, and in exactly the way you want it. You’ll also learn how to put information into your database and print a simple report.
A Tour of an Access Database
As you read in the introduction to this book, a database typically refers to any organized collection of information. In Access, however, a database is much more than that: it’s a kind of wrapper to hold other database objects like tables, forms, and reports. An Access database is also relational, which means (among other things) that you can link tables together to combine their information.
A computerized database must let you add, store, find, display, and print information. Access does all these things and more. For each task, Access has different database objects.
The Access Window
When you start Access, a large window opens on your desktop. When you open a database, its window appears inside this outer one. You can have any number of individual database windows open in Access, so in effect, the Access window is like a desktop-within-a-desktop. As shown in Figure 1-1, all of Access’s toolbars and the ...
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