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Access | Designing a database exercise | Create a Christmas list database
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| Software ==> | Access (66 exercises) |
| Version ==> | Access 2010 and later |
| Topic ==> | Designing a database (3 exercises) |
| Level ==> | Average difficulty |
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Create a new database to hold your Christmas shopping list ideas, called Xmas list.
In this database, create and populate a table to hold the people for whom you are buying presents:
Here the PersonID field will be the primary key
Now create a table of all the places from which you typically buy presents - here is what it might look like:
Feel free to add your own favourites!
Create a third table which allows you to enter present ideas:
Hopefully your present ideas are more imaginative than this
Close down all of the tables that you have created, and enforce referential integrity for the relationships:
This is what your relationship diagram should look like
Close down your database!