Microsoft Access
Joins exercise
Harder than average exercise

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Exercise: Credit control - discrepancies

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

1)	Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-516.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2)	Create a new database called Credit Control 2.mdb.
3)	Import data from the Excel file in the folder shown above to create 2 new tables: AgedDebt, holding the outstanding debt figures by account number; and Accounts, showing details for each account
4)	Create a query using ad hoc joins to show that there are two groups in the Accounts table with no corresponding AgedDebt figures:
	The two groups not referenced
5)	Create a separate query showing that there are 3 accounts with aged debt information which do not have corresponding entries in the Accounts table:
	The three accounts not referenced in the other worksheet
6)	Close your queries and database down.

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