Modifying an Access Form
When you create a Form you select the underlying object. A Form can be based on a table, or multiple tables, or a query, or multiple queries. When you create…
Creating Microsoft Access Forms
Just as the Table objects store data in your Microsoft Access database, the Form objects serve as the user interface between the user and your data. Allowing users unfettered access…
Getting locked up in an Access database
The Microsoft Access interface is a great deal more complex than say that of Microsoft Word or Excel and at times can seem downright impossible to master. Here is the…
An Access Form for data entry only
THIS POST IS “UNDER CONSTRUCTION” – PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON OR COMMENT BELOW! Modifying the properties of an Access Form falls outside the scope of the CAT curriculum. This very…
The Primary Key in a database table
The Primary Key of a table is the field that contains the value which uniquely identifies each record in that table. The Primary Key of a record: Is required (cannot…
Creating TOTALS in Access queries
In Grade 12 one of the most advanced skills you will learn is how to aggregate data using a query. Quite honestly the hardest part about this type of Microsoft…
An Access table with a Calculated Data Type field
The rules of managing data tell us to store data once and not store data that can be derived from existing data. If you have a field storing the age…
Creating a relationship between 2 tables in Microsoft Access
This post follows from the post: Creating & using a “lookup table” in Access. In that exercise, we created a table with the details of some Learners, tblLearners, and a…
Creating & using a “lookup table” in Access
The CAT curriculum includes using a finite Value List to create a Combo Box field in an Access database table. This is appropriate where your list of options is finite,…
A DELETE query in Microsoft Access
OK so now you must tread lightly! DELETE queries are destructive — there is no “undo”! The Golden Rule is: back up your table before running this type of query!…