Microsoft Access Training Areas:
 
- Relational Database Design Topics
- Fundamental Access Topics
- Intermediate Access Topics
- Advanced Access Topics
- Programming with Microsoft Access
- Developing Enterprise Applications with MS Access
- Integrating Microsoft Access with an RDBMS

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Relational Database Design Topics           ^Top

- Purposes of a relational database
- Examples of relational databases
- Entity-Relationship concepts and terminology
- Tables, fields and records
- Primary keys, foreign keys
- Inner out outer joins
- Data types
- Levels of normalization
- Data integrity


Fundamental Access Topics           ^Top

- Introduction to Databases
- Planning databases
- Creating a database
- Creating and modifying tables
- Lookup and input mask wizards
- Creating forms and controls
- Working with records
- Entering, editing and deleting records
- Creating and modifying queries
- Printing tables and query results


Intermediate Access Topics           ^Top

- Creating and modifying reports
- Adding controls and parameters to reports
- Using control and section properties in reports
- Subreports
- Applying filters in queries
- Totals and parameter queries
- Action queries
- SQL statements
- Specifying join properties, foreign keys, foreign tables
- Optimizing queries
- Importing and exporting data
- Charts
- Linking data


Advanced Access Topics           ^Top

- Defining and establishing table relationships
- Data validation
- Optimizing data types
- Creating and modifying forms
- Customizing form sections
- Using subforms
- Advanced form features
- The switchboard
- Startup options and passwords


Programming with Microsoft Access ^Top

- Develop applications with Access using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
- Identify and populate event properties to satisfy design specifications
- Modify object properties and invoke object methods to customize applications
- Create VBA statements using variables and built-in functions
- Build loops and decision logic
- Apply Active Data Objects (ADODB) and/or Data Access Objects (DAO) to incorporate business rules
- Construct custom objects and API calls
- Integrate Access with external applications through automation


Developing Enterprise Applications with Microsoft Access ^Top

- Program enterprise database applications using Microsoft Access and VBA
- Improve data retrieval with advanced SQL techniques
- Interface seamlessly with structure and data in SQL Server databases using Access Data Projects
- Implement ADOX security to control database accessibility
- Replicate data over networks
- Program connections to a client/server db over networks/ Internet using DHTML, ADO and OLE DB providers


Integrating Microsoft Access with an RDBMS           ^Top

- Apply Access as a front-end to databases such as SQL Server and Oracle
- Upsize Access databases to develop multi-tier solutions
- Employ VBA programming techniques to create client/server database solutions
- Transform Access queries into stored procedures
- Base reports on stored procedures retrieved via pass-through queries
- Create ADO-compliant recordsets bound to Access forms and subforms

 

 


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