This section will help you learn how to use a database. A database is one of two applications that you will learn to...
Have you used a telephone book?
Have you used a catalogue to buy CDs or clothes?
Have you seen a holiday brochure...
More and more databases are now electronic because they are easier to use and take up less space.
Electronic...
Here is the data table from a film database that you will use later.
Film
Grading
Time
...
Here are terms that you should now know:
database
electronic
data
data table
row
field
...
In the activity below can you match the words to the corrrect meaning?
When you are sure you understand what...
Play the simulation to see how to open the Access database.
...
Now you try it.
Open Windows Explorer.
Find and open your folder as your tutor has shown you.
Find this file...
Once you have the file Films open you have to open the data table to access the information. Double-click to open the...
From time to time the information in a database has to be changed, for example the time that the film is being shown...
You will have noticed that there is no grading entered for Treasure Planet and The Magdalane Sisters. Play the...
There are spelling mistakes in the data table. Play the animation to see how to change one of them.
Now you are...
Now you try it.
Find your folder on the computer.
Open your folder and load the Films: database.
Load...
Through this module you will be asked to print out your work.
When you used the Start menu you used what is known as a...
Now try and print out the changes that you made in the previous section.
Move the pointer to File on the...
The next two database activities are very similar to the one that you have just done. However, they use different...
The local sports club has a database showing the members' names, numbers, and whether or not they have paid their...
Mrs Lacy uses a database to remind her of family events. Some of the data needs editing.
You have to edit this data...
