Microsoft Access
Advanced queries exercise
Harder than average exercise
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: Expressions - extracting date
A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!
| 1) | Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-723.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 turn each string date into a real date (you may find the DateSerial function useful): |
This query gives you hints as to the intermediate fields you may create
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| 4) | Save this query as DateOfBirth, then close it and the database down. |
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.
