access data analysis cookbook

[...]... rather than technical issues, everyone should be able to gain some smarts about analysis and reporting—the world that users inhabit What’s in This Book Access Data Analysis Cookbook focuses on data The recipes provide example queries, programming tips, and a smattering of math, all with a view to getting answers from your data Here is a summary of the chapters’ contents: Chapter 1, Query Construction... Using Programming to Manipulate Data Discusses several ways to use arrays, how to read from and write to the Windows Registry, how to encrypt data, and how to use transaction processing Recipes here also cover search methods, charts, manipulating data relationships, and more Chapter 7, Importing and Exporting Data Covers the various methods of moving data into and out of Access: import/ export specifications,... statistical techniques are explored in this chapter, including frequency, variance, kurtosis, linear regression, combinations, and permutations All the recipes here have value in data analysis And after all, Access is all about data and what to do with it! Conventions Used in This Book The following typographical conventions are used in this book: Plain text Used for table and field names, menu options,... into your product’s documentation does require permission We appreciate, but do not require, attribution An attribution usually includes the title, author, publisher, and ISBN For example: Access Data Analysis Cookbook by Ken Bluttman and Wayne S Freeze Copyright 2007 O’Reilly Media, Inc., 978-0596-10122-0.” If you feel your use of code examples falls outside fair use or the permission given above,... always remember, I love you Preface | xiii Chapter 133 CHAPTER 1 Query Construction 1 Select queries are an essential part of any database system These queries, which passively gather data (without changing the source data) , are what we rely on to answer our questions about our data In its most basic form, a select query merely returns records from a table verbatim That’s not of much interest, since viewing... (((Student_Grades.Course)="Advanced Access" )) Excel")) Access" )) Excel")); Using IN provides a more streamlined SQL statement Notice how the WHERE section has shrunk: SELECT Students.Student, Student_Grades.Course, Student_Grades.Instructor FROM Students INNER JOIN Student_Grades ON Students.StudentID = Student_Grades.StudentID WHERE Student_Grades.Course In ("Beginner Access" ,"Beginner Excel", "Advanced Access" ,"Advanced... filtering Specifying a data type for the parameter In certain situations, you must indicate the data type of the parameter You do this when: 14 | Chapter 1: Query Construction Figure 1-14 Using the Like operator • Using a crosstab query • Using a query as the source for a chart • Prompting for Boolean (true/false) values • Prompting for fields from a table in an external database Parameter data types are entered... better in either Advanced Access or Advanced Excel and took either Beginner Access or Beginner Excel last year: SELECT Student_Grades.Instructor, Student_Grades.Course, Students.Student, Student_Grades.[MidTerm Grade], Student_Grades.[Final Grade] FROM Students INNER JOIN Student_Grades ON Students.StudentID = Student_Grades.StudentID WHERE (((Student_Grades.Course) In ("Advanced Access" ,"Advanced Excel"))... apply queries to perform nonpassive activities such as inserting, updating, and deleting data Chapter 4, Managing Tables, Fields, Indexes, and Queries Introduces programmatically creating and manipulating tables and queries Chapter 5, Working with String Data Delivers a plateful of recipes to manage text-based data This chapter introduces methods to isolate parts of a string, methods to remove spaces... Query Parameters dialog to establish data types To display the dialog, select the Query ➝ Parameters menu option In the left side of the dialog, enter the prompts that you’ve established in the design grid Then select the data types in the right side of the dialog Parameterizing a Query | 15 1.6 Returning a Top or Bottom Number of Records Problem I have a large table of data that contains thousands of records . y0 w0 h1" alt="" AccessDataAnalysisCookbook Ken Bluttman and Wayne S. Freeze Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Köln • Paris • Sebastopol • Taipei • Tokyo Access Data Analysis Cookbook by Ken Bluttman. many mini-solutions in Access that have likely befuddled some and had others wondering what other types of data Access can be coerced into providing. Access Data Analysis Cookbook is about solutions. should be able to gain some smarts about analysis and reporting—the world that users inhabit. What’s in This Book Access Data Analysis Cookbook focuses on data. The recipes provide example que- ries,