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I hope I’ve made you proud. v Contents at a Glance Part 1 Understanding Microsoft Access Chapter 1 What Is Microsoft Access? . . . . . . . 3 Chapter 2 The Many Faces of Microsoft Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Chapter 3 Designing Your Database Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Part 2 Building a Microsoft Access Desktop Application Chapter 4 Creating Your Database and Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Chapter 5 Modifying Your Table Design . . . . 139 Chapter 6 Importing and Linking Data . . . . . 179 Chapter 7 Creating and Working with Simple Queries . . . . . . . . . . 219 Chapter 8 Building Complex Queries . . . . . . 277 Chapter 9 Modifying Data with Action Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 Part 3 Creating Forms and Reports in a Desktop Application Chapter 10 Using Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 Chapter 11 Building a Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 Chapter 12 Customizing a Form . . . . . . . . . . 433 Chapter 13 Advanced Form Design. . . . . . . . 481 Chapter 14 Using Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 Chapter 15 Constructing a Report . . . . . . . . 537 Chapter 16 Advanced Report Design . . . . . . 555 Part 4 Designing an Access Project Chapter 17 Building Tables in an Access Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599 Chapter 18 Building Queries in an Access Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637 Chapter 19 Designing Forms in an Access Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685 Chapter 20 Building Reports in an Access Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701 Contents at a Glance vi Part 5 Automating an Access Application Chapter 21 Understanding Event Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713 Chapter 22 Understanding Visual Basic Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . 757 Chapter 23 Automating Your Application with Visual Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . 857 Chapter 24 The Finishing Touches . . . . . . . . 927 Part 6 Linking Access and the Web Chapter 25 Publishing Data on the Web . . . . 961 Chapter 26 Creating Static and Dynamic Web Pages . . . . . . . . . . 985 Chapter 27 Building Data Access Pages . . . 1015 Chapter 28 Working with XML and SharePoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095 Part 7 After Completing Your Application Chapter 29 Upsizing a Desktop Application to a Project . . . . . . 1133 Chapter 30 Securing Your Database . . . . . . 1163 Chapter 31 Distributing Your Application . . 1203 Part 8 Appendix Appendix Installing Microsoft Office . . . . 1223 Part 9 Articles Article 1 Understanding SQL . . . . . . . . . . . A1 Article 2 Exporting Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . A45 Article 3 Visual Basic Function Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A49 Article 4 Internet Explorer Web Page Color Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A59 vii Table of Contents Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii We’d Like to Hear from You! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv About the CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxvii What’s on the CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii Sample Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxviii Using the CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxixi System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix Support Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix Conventions and Features Used in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi Text Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi Design Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi Syntax Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxiii Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxv Microsoft Access Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxvi About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxvii Part 1 Understanding Microsoft Access Chapter 1 What Is Microsoft Access? 3 What Is a Database? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Relational Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Database Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Microsoft Access as an RDBMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Data Definition and Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Data Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Data Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Microsoft Access as an Application Development System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Deciding to Move to Database Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Chapter 2 The Many Faces of Microsoft Access 17 The Architecture of Microsoft Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Exploring a Desktop Database—Housing Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Data Access Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Table of Contents viii Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Organizing Your Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Exploring a Project File—LawTrack Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Views, Functions, and Stored Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 The Many Faces of Microsoft Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Chapter 3 Designing Your Database Application 53 Application Design Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Step 1: Identifying Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Step 2: Charting Task Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Step 3: Identifying Data Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Step 4: Organizing the Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Step 5: Designing a Prototype and a User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Step 6: Constructing the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Step 7: Testing, Reviewing, and Refining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 An Application Design Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Analyzing the Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Selecting the Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Organizing Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Data Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Choosing the Database Subjects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Mapping Subjects to Your Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Database Design Concepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Waste Is the Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Normalization Is the Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Efficient Relationships Are the Result . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 When to Break the Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Improving Performance of Critical Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Capturing Point-In-Time Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Creating Report Snapshot Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Part 2 Building a Microsoft Access Desktop Application Chapter 4 Creating Your Database and Tables 85 Creating a New Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Using a Database Template to Create a Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Creating a New Empty Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Creating Your First Simple Table by Entering Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Creating a Table Using the Table Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Creating a Table in Design View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 ix Table of Contents Defining Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Understanding Field Data Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Setting Field Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Completing the Fields in the Companies Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Defining Simple Field Validation Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Defining Input Masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Defining a Primary Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Defining a Table Validation Rule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Understanding Other Table Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Defining Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Defining Your First Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Creating a Relationship on Multiple Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Adding Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Single Field Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Multiple-Field Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Setting Table Design Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Printing a Table Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Database Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Chapter 5 Modifying Your Table Design 139 Before You Get Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Making a Backup Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Checking Object Dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Deleting Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Renaming Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Changing Field Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Moving Fields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Inserting Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Copying Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Deleting Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Changing Data Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Changing Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Changing Data Lengths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Dealing with Conversion Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Changing Other Field Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Reversing Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Using the Table Analyzer Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Taking a Look at Lookup Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Changing the Primary Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Compacting Your Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Chapter 6 Importing and Linking Data 179 A Word About Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Importing vs. Linking Database Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Table of Contents x Importing Data and Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Importing dBASE Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Importing Paradox Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Importing SQL Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Importing Access Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Importing Spreadsheet Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Preparing a Spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Importing a Spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Fixing Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Importing Text Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Preparing a Text File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Importing a Text File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Fixing Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Modifying Imported Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Linking Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Performance Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Linking Access Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Linking dBASE and Paradox Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Linking Text and Spreadsheet Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Linking SQL Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Modifying Linked Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Unlinking Linked Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Using the Linked Table Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Chapter 7 Creating and Working with Simple Queries 219 Selecting Data from a Single Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Specifying Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Setting Field Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Entering Selection Criteria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Using Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Using the Expression Builder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Specifying Field Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Sorting Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Testing Validation Rule Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Checking a New Field Validation Rule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Checking a New Table Validation Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 Working in Query Datasheet View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Moving Around and Using Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Working with Subdatasheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Changing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Working with Hyperlinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Sorting and Searching for Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 [...]... E-Mail: nsideout @microsoft. com Mail: Inside Out Series Editor Microsoft Press One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 Note: Unfortunately, we can’t provide support for any software problems you might experience Please go to http://support .microsoft. com for help with any software issues xxv About the CD The companion CD that ships with this book contains many tools and resources to help you get the most out of... ships with this book contains many tools and resources to help you get the most out of your Inside Out book What’s On the CD Your Inside Out CD includes the following: ● Complete eBook In this section you’ll find the an electronic version of Microsoft Office Access 2003 Inside Out The eBook is in PDF format ● Insider Extras This section includes sample files referenced in the book Use these files to... Internet or intranet Web servers Access also fully supports Microsoft s ActiveX technology, so an Access application can be either a client or a server for all the other Office applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, FrontPage, Publisher, and the new Microsoft OneNote Access provides a very sophisticated application development system for the Microsoft Windows operating system... for more detail ● Microsoft Resources In this section, you’ll find information about additional resources from Microsoft that will help you get the most out of the Microsoft Office System Building on the familiar tools that many people already know, the Microsoft Office System includes servers, services, and desktop programs to help address a broad array of business needs ● Extending Access In this section,... Creating a Data Access Page in Design View Automating Data Access Pages Using the Microsoft Script Editor with Data Access Pages Creating Scripts for Data Access Pages Updating Data Access Page Links and Connections Updating Links from Access to Data Access Pages Updating Connections ... databases, Access provides the tools to easily link mainframe and PC data in a single Windows-based application Microsoft Access can also act as a direct source of information published on an intranet or the World Wide Web Data access pages let you quickly create and deploy intranet applications using pages that you create directly from Access much like you would create an Access application form Data access. .. update data stored either in an Access database or in Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft Access 2003 includes new and enhanced features to allow you to export or import data in XML format (the lingua franca of data stored on the Web) or to directly link to an XML data source on a Microsoft SharePoint Services Web site You can export data (or subsets of data) stored in a Microsoft Access or SQL Server database... sense Because Access uses Visual Basic, you can use the same set of skills with other applications in Microsoft Office or with Microsoft Visual Basic For small businesses (and for consultants creating applications for small businesses), the Access desktop development features are all that’s required to store and manage the data used to run a typical small business Access coupled with Microsoft SQL... 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