Access | Creating tables exercise | Import cast table, and change fields to lookups

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Software ==> Access  (66 exercises)
Version ==> Access 2010 and later
Topic ==> Creating tables  (4 exercises)
Level ==> Average difficulty
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You'll need to have already created a table of films and a table of actors to do this exercise.

In Access, choose to import the workbook called Cast.xlsx in the above folder into your database, to create a new table called tblCast. 

Rather than creating a new primary key, choose to use the existing column called CastId as the primary key.

This is what you should have when you double-click on the table to view its data:

The table of who plays what

The first few of the 833 records imported.

Now go into the table's design, and change the following fields to look up data from other tables:

Field Table to look up from Value to store Field to display
CastFilmId tblFilm FilmId FilmName
CastActorId tblActor ActorId ActorName

The first few records should look very different now when you double-click on the tblCast table (even though the values held haven't changed):

The first few films

The first few films as they should now appear.

Close this table down!

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