Microsoft Access
Advanced queries exercise
Average difficulty

This Microsoft Access ADVANCED QUERIES exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to assess their suitability for the Wise Owl ACCESS INTRODUCTION FOR DEVELOPERS course only, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Exercise: Expressions: using LEN to find length of fields

A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-336.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Create an expression query called expressionLengthOfOwnerName that lists each owner's name together with the length of their name:
Exercise screen-shot 885 For extra points, sort the names so that the longest appears first
Training exercise hint You can use the LEN function to find out how long a string of text is - LEN("Wise Owl") would equal 8, for example.

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