Step by Step Databases - Softcover

Dillon, Alan

 
9780717160433: Step by Step Databases

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Third edition of this popular, easy-to-use textbook, updated for the revised Database Methods Level 5 module [5N0783], which details fundamental database methods while providing for practical experience in database design, implementation and organisation.

 - New to this edition:

  • Updated for the revised Database Methods module [5N0783] and Access 2010 (all assignments can be completed using Access 2007)

  • Includes new material on the following topics:

    • Understanding SQL code in a Query

    • Building Pivot Queries and Pivot Charts

  • Provides instruction on how to create reports in a format suitable for emailing or printing
  • Demonstrates how to import data from external data sources such as text files, spreadsheets or existing database files
  • Details how to create relationships between tables to develop a database design to a given design brief.

- Shows how to design and format Access forms, create queries using a range of logical operators, organise data in a report using sorting and grouping, set up a table to store different types of data, and use report functions.

- Brings the learner from the basics of database design to an advanced level.

- Emphasises learning through practice.

- No previous experience in databases is required.

 

Written for:

  • Database Methods Level 5 module [5N0783]

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alan Dillon teaches Information Technology in Roslyn Park College, Dublin. He has been teaching IT since 1993 but has also worked as a computer programmer.

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