Microsoft Access
Importing data exercise
Relatively easy
This Microsoft Access IMPORTING DATA 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: Import a spreadsheet of films
A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!
| 1) | Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-703.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it). |
| 2) | In Excel, open the file in the folder above and make any suitable changes to it so that it is ready to be imported into Access: |
Remember that you can not have full stops in field names ...
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| 3) | Create a new database called Films (or use an existing database if you prefer). |
| 4) | Import the films spreadsheet into this database, choosing not to set a primary key (you already have a perfectly good one in the Number field): |
You should get 294 films
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| 5) | In design view, change the data type of the Year and BoxOffice fields to make them Long Integer (whole numbers) rather than Double (any numbers). |
| 6) | Close down your table and database, saving any changes. |
Thank you for showing an interest in this Access Introduction for Developers training course! As mentioned above, full answers to this and other exercises are provided on the course. On all Wise Owl scheduled courses delegates can take away these model answers (together with their own efforts!) on a free USB stick.
