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LESSON 1 – INTRODUCTION TO QUERY BUILDER

Launching Query Builder

Understanding Query Builder Screens

Performing Your First Query in Query Builder

Saving the Query

Closing and creating another query

Practice

LESSON 2 – DEFINING NEW COLUMNS

Adding a Literal Text Column or a Calculation Column to the Query

Selecting Defined Columns For the Query

Practice

LESSON 3 – LIMITING THE RECORDS SELECTED IN QUERY BUILDER

The Query Editor

Entering Conditions

To activate the condition box

To enter a condition

To accept the condition

To cancel or remove the conditions

Executing a Query to select the employees in the ‘POL’ department

Adding Multiple Conditions

Practice

LESSON 4 – RETRIEVING RECORDS FROM MULTIPLE TABLES USING QUERY BUILDER

Defining a Relationship

Practice

LESSON 5 – USING QUERY BUILDER TO COMPUTE GROUP VALUES

Creating and Executing a Group Function

Limiting the Records Based Upon the Group Function

Practice

LESSON 6 – ORDERING YOUR RECORDS

Setting the sort order using the Sort dialog box

Using the Toolbar tools to set the sort order

Practice

LESSON 7 – CHARACTER, NUMBER and DATE FUNCTIONS

The Paste Function dialog box

Practice

LESSON 8 – SUBSELECTS AND QUERY PARAMETERS

Performing a subselect

Correlated Queries

Parameter columns

Defining a query parameter

Using the query parameter

Practice

LESSON 9 – FORMATTING THE RESULTS

Using the Format dialog box

Toolbar formatting tools

Breaking the results

Printing the results with headers, footers, and margins

Removing gridlines and row counters

To Launch the Preferences Dialog box: Select the Edit/Preference menu option.

Practice

LESSON 10 – COLUMN TOTALS AND SUBTOTALS

Practice

LESSON 11 – MODIFYING DATA USING QUERY BUILDER

How to launch the Data Editor

Updating Records

Deleting Records

Inserting Records

Commiting and Rollback of the changes

Practice

Appendix A – EMPLOYEE TABLE RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM

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