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Using database functions including DSUM, DAVERAGE, DMAX

Using database functions including DSUM, DAVERAGE, DMAX

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Using database functions including DSUM, DAVERAGE, DMAX

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- [Voiceover] Excel has a category of functions called Database functions. We're looking at a worksheet called DB functions. Now what if you heard that phrase, database function, said I wonder what these are all about. I'm gonna go to the Forumlas tab here, and see if we can track down these functions. Well, we've got financial, logical, text, I don't see database here, but we do have this category out here, called More Functions. Let's click this. And what do we see, we're not seeing database. That's a bit strange. Now, if we click on an empty cell somewhere, and then, just to the left of the Formula bar, click the fx button, under Select a Category, drop arrow, there's that category called database. And we see a bunch of functions here, notice how they all begin with the letter D and many of them are followed by functions that you probably recognize, like average and max and min and so on. Let's cancel here and use one of these within context. Now, using these functions, requires…

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