1. 1. (5) List all the different kinds of queries, which can be created by ACCESS.
Answer: 
Select queries
Parameter queries
Cross Tab queries
Action queries
SQL queries
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2. Check both the attributes involved.
2. (3) When you use the relationships tool in Microsoft Access, the system indicates whether the relationship is one-to-many or one-to-one. How is the system able to determine when the relationship must be one-to-one?
Answer:
Check both the attributes involved.
The index property of each is set to Yes – No/duplicates.
Then, click and drag one of the two attributes from one table to the other.
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3. √ =“Campus” field lname Location Balance table Customers Branch
3. (5) Assume that in a database, we have three tables:
Accounts[AID, CountID, BranchID, Balance],
Branch[ID, BranchID, manager, Location, Startdate], and
Customers[CountID, fname, lname, Street, City, State].
Use Query Grid to create a query corresponding to the
following SQL statement:
Select lname, Location, Balance
From Customer, Branch, Accounts
Where branch.Location = “Campus”.
field
lname
Location
Balance
table
Customers
Branch
Accounts
sort
show √
Total
criteria
 =“Campus”
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4. Answer: Report Header Page Header Group Header Details Group Footer
4. (3) Microsoft Access Reports have seven components/sections, beginning with the Report Header. Name the other six sections.
Answer:
Report Header
Page Header
Group Header
Details
Group Footer
Page Footer
Report Footer
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5. 5. (6) Consider the following Vehicle table.
Vid
Make
Model
Colour
Kilos
Year
Price
Sold 1
Toyota
Celica
Red
100000
1994
$15,000.00
Yes 2
Honda
Prelude
Blue
150000
$18,000.00 No 3
145000
1993
$15,500.00 4
1997
$22,000.00 5
1996 6 7 8
1995
a) A business analyst would like to see the results of a query that shows how many vehicles were sold in each year. Design your query and show its definition in Design View.
b) Another analyst wants a crosstab query illustrating how many vehicles there are for the various colours and years. Show the result (include row headings, column headings) of running such a query for the sample data.
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6. a)
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7. b)
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9. May 2018 ACS-2814 Yangjun Chen Year Red Blue 1994 1 1993 1997 1996 2
1993
1997
1996 2
1995
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10. 6. (6) Consider the following design.
Brand 1
Category N
Product
BName
BDesc
cat
CatDesc
PDesc
PCode
Pname
a) Illustrate the relationships as they would be shown in the MS Access Relationships Tool.
b)Show the relation structure created for Product when the ERD is mapped to a relational database.
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11. Product: [Pcode, Pname, Pdesc, Cat, Nname]
BName
BDesc
Cat
CatDesc
PCode
Pname
PDesc 1  b)
Product: [Pcode, Pname, Pdesc, Cat, Nname]
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12. Use an attached sheet for your answer.
7. (6) Given the query below, show the corresponding Query Design View.
Use an attached sheet for your answer.
Assume that Dealer and Auto are two tables. Dealer has attributes: DealerId, and name; and Auto has attributes: AutoId, Make, Model, Year, Price, and Did, where Did is a foreign key referring to DealerId. For each dealer, find the number of the autos with price > 10000, sold by it.
field
DealerId
AutoId
Price
table
Dealer
Auto
sort
Total
Group by
Count
show √
criteria
>10,000
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13. 8. (5) List all the different ways to create tables by MS Access.
Answer:
- Using Table Wizard
- Using data sheet view
- Using design view
- Creating tables with queries
- Creating tables by importing external data sources
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14. - Field size- Adjusts the size of the text field
9. (6) Explain the meaning of the following properties for attributes.
- Field size property
- Format property
- Input Mask property
- Default Value property
- Validation Rule property
- Caption
Answer:
- Field size- Adjusts the size of the text field
- Format- changes the way field is displayed. Does not effect the value.
- Input Mask- facilitates data entry by displaying literals
- Default Value- the automatically entered value
- Validation Rule- Rejects records that do not conform to rules entered.
- Alternate name to be displayed other than the field name. Alternate names appear in datasheets, forms, and reports
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15. To facilitate query specification
10. (5Answer the following questions:
a)  Why should we avoid creating calculated data fields in a table?
b) Why should we store data in their smallest parts?
c) Why should we establish validation rules for data fields?
d) Why should we use multiple tables, instead of a global table?
e) What does it mean by the property “required”?
Answer:
To save space
To facilitate query specification
To keep data consistency, preventing the user from entering wrong data
To save space. Normally, in a global table, much redundant data will be stored.
For each record, a concrete value for the corresponding data field must be provided.
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16. Examples for Format property
Format property for Number data type:
#,###.##;(#,###.##)[Red];0,000.00;“Undefined”
format for positive
number
format for 0
format for null-value
format for negative
number
1,098.88
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17. Examples for Input Mask property
Input mask forText data type:
!\(999") "000\-0000;0;_ - (204)
>!“FJ”\-AA\ – FJ-EA-12048
Input mask for Time data type
99:00:00\ >LL;0;_ - 05:56:00 PM
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