Microsoft Access
Crosstab queries exercise
Harder than average exercise

This Microsoft Access CROSSTAB 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: Crosstab - films by size and year (include IIF)

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

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-725.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 to divide films by size:
  • Anything more than 500,000,000 box office is defined as a BlockBuster;
  • Anything else is just Big.
Training exercise hint Use the IIF function (the equivalent of the Excel IF function) to calculate this expression.
4) Create a crosstab query based on this first one which shows all the films by size and year:
Exercise screen-shot 1459 The most recent films are shown first
5) Save this query as FilmsBySize, then close it and the database down.

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.

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