Microsoft 365 Access: Part 2 (MA6234)

Your training and experience using Microsoft Access has given you basic database management skills, such as creating tables, designing forms and reports, and building queries. In this course, you will expand your knowledge of relational database design; promote quality input from users; improve database efficiency and promote data integrity; and implement advanced features in tables, queries, forms, and reports. Extending your knowledge of Access will result in a robust, functional database for your users.

This course is the second part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform database design and development in Microsoft Access.

This course focuses on optimization of an Access database, including optimizing performance and normalizing data; data validation; usability; and advanced queries, forms, and reports.

Module 1: Promoting Quality Data Input

• Restrict Data Input through Field Validation
• Restrict Data Input through Forms and Record Validation

Module 2: Improving Efficiency and Data Integrity

• Data Normalization
• Associate Unrelated Tables
• Enforce Referential Integrity

Module 3: Improving Table Usability

• Create Lookups within a Table
• Work with Subdatasheets

Module 4: Creating Advanced Queries

• Create Query Joins
• Create Subqueries
• Summarize Data

Module 5: Improving Form Presentation

• Apply Conditional Formatting
• Create Tab Pages with Subforms and Other Controls

Module 6: Creating Advanced Reports

• Apply Advanced Formatting to a Report
• Add a Calculated Field to a Report
• Control Pagination and Print Quality
• Add a Chart to a Report