CHAPTER 4 - ACCESS - QUERY AND REPORTS
CHAPTER 4: ACCESS – QUERIES AND REPORTS
When we sort on more than one field the most
important field is known as Major Key or Primary Sort Key while the less
important field is known as minor key or secondary sort key
1. What do you understand by query?
Query is
a request for specific data from the database. The capability of querying a
database is one of the most powerful database features
Compound
criteria means applying more than one criterion to find the data we are searching.
We need
Sorting to arrange alphabetical/numeric data in ascending/descending order so
that we can locate the required data quickly.
A report
is a database object used to display data from a query or table in an appealing
way.
1. Explain
the query window options.
The top pane of query window displays
the tables selected for the query. The bottom pane displays a design grid where
we can add fields to the query and also specify the criteria.
The query window options are Database
Tables, Field list, View, Run, QBE grid, Field, Table, Sort, Show, Criteria and
Or.
Wildcards are symbols that represent any
character or combination of characters. The first wild card symbol is asterisk
(*) which represents any collection of characters. The other wildcard symbol is
the question mark (?) which represents any individual character.