Chapter 9. Harnessing Access
Access 2010 is a program for creating databases to store business or personal information. You can use Access to create, retrieve, and manage large or small collections of information. To make it easier for you to create databases, Access provides several built-in templates, as well as additional templates online.
In Access, data is stored in tables. Each individual entry in a table is called a record. For example, in a Customers table, the information about each customer is a separate record. Each record is composed of one or more fields, which contain individual pieces of data. For example, a customer field might include a name, address, city, state, or ZIP code.
By default, tables appear as spreadsheet grids called ...
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