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Protect the database with a password

Protect the database with a password

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Protect the database with a password

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- [Instructor] It's common for an Access database to include sensitive information that should only be accessible to people with the proper credentials. By establishing a password on your database file, you can keep your data secure. In order to password protect your database, we're gonna go up to the File tab, and in the info section, we're gonna click on the encrypt with password button. That'll bring up this information window that says, "You must have the database open for exclusive use to set or remove the database password." To do this, we need to close our database and reopen it in a specific way. Go ahead and say okay to this, and then we'll come up to File, and I'll come down to close. That'll shut down our database but leave Access running. Then, I'll go back up to File, click on Open, and then click on the Browse button. That'll open up my file browser where I can go out to my desktop and find the Exercise files. We're in the Chapter Eight folder, and it was the Landon…

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