Microsoft Access
Advanced queries exercise
Average difficulty

This Microsoft Access ADVANCED QUERIES exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to assess their suitability for the Wise Owl BASIC QUERYING IN ACCESS course only, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Exercise: Grouping - How Many Boys and Girls, etc

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

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-337.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Create a grouping query called groupingHowManyCelebsAndPlebs to list the number of celebrity and non-celebrity owners.
Exercise screen-shot 882 Your results should resemble the example above
3) Create a grouping query called groupingHowManyBoysAndGirls to list the number of boy pets and the number of girl pets.
Exercise screen-shot 883 See if you can give your column headings more sensible names
4) Create a grouping query called groupingTotalVetBills to display the total of all vet bills.
Exercise screen-shot 884 Again, see if you can give your field heading a better name than SumOfVetBills

Thank you for showing an interest in this Basic Querying in Access 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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