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Free Microsoft Access 2007 training exercise

This harder than average Access 2007 exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to choose the correct Wise Owl Microsoft training course, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

You can learn how to do this exercise on one of the following Wise Owl training courses: Each of these courses also includes a full answer to this exercise.
First download the files needed to start this exercise: ex-678 (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).

Expressions - deriving artist name from title

Open the database in the above folder.

Using the hint below create a query to extract the last word in the album title, in the hope that it will give the artist name:

Access 2007 exercise - Advanced queries (image 1)

This query only works for artists with a single word in their name!

The InStrRev function picks out the last occurrence of a string of text within another string, starting at the end. 

Save your query as SplittingAlbumTitle, then close it and your database down.

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