Mr. Keller - MS Office 2 Access 2000 Chapter 1 Mr. Keller

Mr. Keller - MS Office 2 What is Access?  A powerful database management system (DBMS) that functions in the Windows environment and allows you to create and process data in a database.

Mr. Keller - MS Office 2 What is a Database?  A database is a collection of data organized in a manner that allows access, retrieval and use of that data.  Examples: Address Book Telephone Book Star Base (Student Directory)

Mr. Keller - MS Office 2 What is a DBMS?  A DataBase Management System is a collection of tables. Tables are similar to the Excel Spreadsheets we just learned.  Tables consist of Fields (like cells)  You can relate fields to each other, which become rows

Mr. Keller - MS Office 2 Features 1. Fields 2. Rows 3. Tables 4. Sorting 5. Queries 6. Reports

Mr. Keller - MS Office 2 Project 1 – Bavant Marine Services Database  Describe databases  Describe database mgmt  Start Access  Features on Access Screen  Create a database  Create a table  Define fields  Open a table  Add records to an empty table  Close a table  Close a database and quit  Open a database  Add records to a nonempty table  Print the contents of a table  Use a form to view data  Create a custom report  Use help  Design a database to eliminate redundancy

Mr. Keller - MS Office 2 End of Chapter Activities  Apply Your Knowledge Open a Table Change Data Create a Report  In The Lab 1, 2, 3 All Chapter Skills  Cases and Places 1 & 2 Required  Cases and Places Extra Credit

Mr. Keller - MS Office 2 Let’s Get Started Open your Microsoft Excel 2000 books to Page A 1.6