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Searching and replacing values - Microsoft Access Tutorial
From the course: Office 365: Access Essential Training
Searching and replacing values
- Queries and Access are where a lot of the magic of the database comes to life, and truth be told, they're one of my favorite components of any database, but if you've never worked with them before, then you might be wondering, "Well, what exactly is a query?" Simply put, queries are a very powerful way to ask questions about your data. You'll do this by pulling information out of your existing data tables and combining that data into new configurations on the fly. Queries return answers in the form of a temporary datasheet, but they don't take up any additional storage space in the database because they only store the instruction on how to reassemble your existing data and don't store data of their own. And every time you run a query, it fetches the current state of the data from the source tables, so they're always up-to-date. One of the best features of a query, though, is that they look and function just like regular tables, so you can connect them to forms and reports in exactly…
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Searching and replacing values3m 10s
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Creating queries with the Simple Query Wizard3m 58s
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Building queries in Design view9m 23s
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Establishing constraints with criteria5m 28s
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Specifying criteria with wildcards4m 16s
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Leveraging multiple criteria with AND and OR statements6m 7s
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Filtering with mathematical comparisons3m 41s
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Creating flexible queries with parameter requests5m 7s
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Building expressions7m 26s
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Obtaining summary statistics7m 3s
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Challenge: Creating queries42s
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Solution: Creating queries4m 38s
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