Using the Northwind Traders Sample Database
One fundamental problem with books about database management applications is the usual method of demonstrating how to create a "typical" database. You are asked to type fictitious names, addresses, and telephone numbers into a Customers table. Next, you must create additional tables that relate these fictitious customers to their purchases of various widgets in assorted sizes and quantities. This process is unrewarding for readers and authors, and few readers ever complete the exercises.
Therefore, this book takes a different tack. Access includes a comprehensive and interesting sample database, Northwind Traders. Rather than create a new database at this point, you create a new table as an addition ...
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