Junk mail needs databases to survive. The logic of list extraction allows air conditioning ads to be sent to the sweltering souls of Phoenix, not arctic Alaska. Essential to modern databases is the ability to add variables and cases. In this example, Access readily accepts a new product category without major problems. Old databases had to be laboriously recoded to accept changes.
Access is a complex tool.
We'll only do simple tasks just to give you the flavor of how it works. Use WSftp to down load the files tenngive.dbf and tenncand.dbf . These are files originally cast for DBase 5, a popular relational database. One file, tncand.dbf , is a list of candidates for a recent election in Tennessee. A second, tenngive.dbf , lists contributors to candidates and the amount they gave.