Microsoft Access
Designing a database exercise
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This Microsoft Access DESIGNING A DATABASE 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: Creating a recipes database

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

1)	Create a new database called Recipes.
2)	Create a new table to hold the different supermarket areas from which you can buy ingredients.  When you have defined the fields, enter data as shown below:
	Your table should contain 2 fields as shown above
3)	Close this table down, then create another table called Recipe to hold your favourite recipes (if you haven't got any, make them up!).  Here is what this might look like:
	Here we will add the ingredients for 2 recipes, but feel free to choose different ones to enter
4)	Finally, create and populate a table to hold the ingredients that you need to buy - this might look like this:
	Note that in this case Quantity will be a text field
5)	Apply referential integrity to your relationships:
	This is what the final diagram should look like
6)	Close your database down when you have finished.

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