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Logon thenturn your monitor off!
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Creating a database
A way of keeping information
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Start the database program
Start > Programs > Microsoft Office > Access
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Create the new database
Type in ‘members’ Click ‘Create’
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Now create a table to hold the data
Double click ‘Create table in design view’
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Enter some fields
What’sa field?
A field is the name of one bit of data – for example ‘Surname’
Type ‘Surname’ here. (No not your surname – the word ‘Surname’)
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Now tell it what type of field
Click here to get the ‘Text’ field type to appear in this column.
Is ’50’ too
long?
The longest surname in school is 15 characters long!
Change it to 20
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Create more fields
First Name (length 15) Gender (length 1 – you will enter M or F) Address line 1 (You work out how long to
make it. Think of the longest you know and add a few extra)
District (How long?) Town (How long?) Postcode (postcodes can be 9 long)
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Add a ‘Date of birth’ field
Type ‘Date of birth’ here
Then click here and click the V after the ‘Text’ which appears
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Select ‘Date/Time’
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Now choose the type of date
Click here and then on the ‘V’ which appears
Choose ‘Medium Date’
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Add a membership number
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Make it a ‘Primary key’
Click this icon
What’s a
Primary Key?
A field which is a primary key has to have unique entries – no two the same. Autonumber fields are always unique.
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Save the table
Use File > Save Type in a table name e.g. ‘Member list’ Click ‘OK’
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Starting your database again
Choose Start > My Documents Find your database file – it should be
called ‘members’ and will look like Double click the file Choose ‘Yes’ then ‘No’ then ‘Open’
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Putting data in the database
Try double clicking this.
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The table of data
You could just click in the table and enter data but…
…there’s a better way
Click this cross to close the table.
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Creating a form to enter data
Select this ‘object’
…then double click ‘Create form by using wizard’.
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Creating a form (2)
Click this …
…then click ‘Finish’.
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Entering data in a form.
Ignore this
Type your details
Type your details
Type M or F
e.g. 12-Jan-1987
Type your details
Click this for the next one
Smith
Joseph
M
12-Jan-93
16 Feather drive
Harold Hill
Romford
RM3 7FG
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Entering data in a form.
Oops there’s a mistake!
That should be ‘Drive’ not ‘drive’
To fix it just click where the mistake is and correct it.
Smith
Joseph
M
12-Jan-93
16 Feather drive
Harold Hill
Romford
RM3 7FG
16 Feather rive16 Feather Drive