Microsoft Access
Creating queries exercise
Relatively easy

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Exercise: Sorting films data

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

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-707.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Open the database in the above folder.
3) Create a query which shows the films in the following order:
  • With the most recent films first; and
  • Where there are two or more films for the same year, sort these into alphabetical order.
4) Your final answer should look like this:
Exercise screen-shot 1417 The 2006 films, for example, are subsorted alphabetically
5) Save this query as FilmsOrdered, then close it down.

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