Syllabus Required Texts The Access Guidebook for Office 97 by Trigg and Dobson. This course introduces the functions of a database management system. It includes such skills as creating database files and tables, using filters and queries, creating a variety of reports and forms, creating and running macros, data sharing among applications and translating database objects into web pages.
Students have hands-on experiences working with the software.
In addition, there will be further exploration of database functions and design through Internet exercises. The tables will have fields with appropriate names, data types and properties and primary keys. There will be weekly assignments consisting of exercises from the textbook and additional web assignments. The web assignments can be downloaded from the Document Sharing section. In addition, there will be two tests, a midterm and a final.