Microsoft Access 2003: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction - Building a Foundation for Client/Server Database Applications

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You will learn how to

• Design robust relational database applications using Microsoft Access 2003
• Develop client/server database front-ends
• Build database applications quickly using Form, Table, Report and Query wizards
• Link to ODBC and OLE-DB data sources to leverage enterprise security
• Create and integrate macros into your applications
• Implement advanced Access reporting features

Course benefits
Microsoft Access is a powerful visual tool with which to design and develop Windows-based database applications. Windows power users can also use Access to manipulate data, generate reports and act as the front-end for client/server database systems.

This hands-on course provides an in-depth view of the features and functionality of Access. You learn key database design concepts and work with Access to build a database system in class. You also develop a Microsoft Access front-end that queries a SQL Server database over a Windows network.

Who should attend
This course is valuable for anyone who plans to prototype, build and integrate database applications using Microsoft Access 2003 or a prior version of Access. Familiarity with Windows is assumed; some knowledge of databases or macros is helpful.

Hands-on training
During the course, you perform extensive exercises that provide in-depth hands-on experience with Microsoft Access. Exercises include:

• Building a Microsoft Access database
• Establishing indexes and data relationships
• Linking data among Access tables and with other programs
• Using Form and Query wizards
• Linking to and querying a SQL Server database
• Creating buttons to run macros
• Programming with macros and VBA
• Handling Windows events
• Creating preformatted and custom reports
• Developing advanced Access reports

Course content
INTRODUCTION TO ACCESS

• Overview of database concepts
• Databases and their contents
• Flat file and relational databases
• The fundamentals of database design
• Tables, records and fields
• Ordering schemes
• Indexes and keys
• Introduction to the Access product
• The visual development environment
• When to use Access

CREATING A RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH ACCESS

• Defining the requirements
• Eliciting user needs and wants
• Designing the data model
• Building an Access database system
• Access tables, fields, indexes
• Table relationships
• Table wizards
• Adding the data
• Working with the datasheet view
• Attaching or importing existing tables
• Designing a friendly user interface
• Forms design
• Form wizards
• Controls and control properties

QUERYING THE DATABASE

• Query types and elements
• What is a Query?
• Query by Example (QBE)
• Query by Form (QBF)
• Select queries
• Crosstab queries
• Action queries
• Parameter queries
• Managing queries
• Query wizards
• Expressions in queries

ACCESS AS A CLIENT/SERVER FRONT-END

• Attaching to a SQL Server database
• The ODBC OLE-DB connectivity standards
• Multiuser and security concerns
• SQL queries across the network
• Using Query wizards with SQL
• Issuing commands to SQL databases using pass-through queries

ACCESS REPORTS

• Using Report wizards
• Quick printouts with AutoReports
• Tabular, groups/totals, mailing labels and other standard report types
• Visually enhancing your presentation with wizards
• Exploiting formulas and expressions in reports
• Designing queries for effective report grouping
• Modifying the standard report formats
• Elements of effective custom reports
• Adjusting report controls

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT WITH MACROS AND VBA

• Designing effective macros
• Point and click
• Debugging tips
• Macro style guidelines
• Running a macro from events
• Converting macros to VBA code
• Event-driven programming
• Writing event-driven programs
• Associating macros with controls to respond to user-triggered events
• Programming conditional macros to respond to user input
• Automating your application with VBA
• Correlating data types with Access table definitions
• Controlling form values with variables

ADVANCED ACCESS TECHNIQUES

• Techniques for forms
• Validating user data with field masks, field-level validation and advanced logic control
• Populating list and combo boxes with queries
• Hiding columns in list and combo boxes
• Macro techniques
• Grouping macros for organization
• Creating keyboard shortcuts with AutoKeys
• Converting Access macros to VBA code

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