Setting up a database

Practical Tasks

Setting up a basic Access Database (walkthrough 1)

Skills covered:

  • Creating a new database
  • Setting up fields
  • Changing the field size
  • Selecting appropriate data types
  • Setting up formatting e.g. date
  • Primary key
  • Required field
  • Validation rule
  • Lookup table
  • Creating a form
  • Entering records

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Task (2007)

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Task (2003)

Setting up a basic Access Database (walkthrough 2)

Skills covered:

  • Creating a new database
  • Creating and using tables
  • using data fields, records, data types, field sizes and primary keys

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Task (2003)

Plants Database Task

This task assumes that students are familiar with an Access database.

Students are provided with a ready created database and are asked to make various adaptations.

 

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plants.mdb

Walkthrough for creating forms

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Task (2003)

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forms1.mdb