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| Datacase management system software program used to organize, store, maintain, retrieve, sort, and print all types of buisness data. |
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| Comprised of a series of objects such as tables,forms, reports, and queries that you use to enter, manage, view, and print data. |
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| Organizes data in fields (column) and (records). A database must contain at least one table. The table is the base upon which other objects are created. |
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| used to display data from a table or related tables that meets a conditional statement and/or to preform calculations. For example, display only those records in which the city is Vancouver. |
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| Allows fields and records to be presented in a different layout than the datasheet. Used to facictate data and maintenance. |
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| Prints data from tables or queries. |
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| Describe a person, customer,client, object, place, idea, or event. |
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| Unique and describes the contents of the field; can contain up to 64 characters. |
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| Specfies the type of data you can enter in a field; helps to manage and maintain data. |
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| Consider the data that will be entered in the field than sorten or lengthen the number fo accomodate any possible entries. |
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| Is saved automatically on a periodic basis; also when another record is made active, a table or database is closed. |
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| Add a mew recprd tp table |
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| Click the New Button in the Records group inHome tab or Ctrl+Shift++. |
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| Used in a table to define field names and assign data types. |
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| Used to enter data in fields; organizes fields; organizes fields into columns. |
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| Store characters (letters, symbols, words, a combination of letters and numbers) |
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| Fields that store a number with a decimal portion. |
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| Fields that store only whole numbers. |
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| Field that automatically stores a numeric value that is onw greater thatn that in the last record added. |
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| The way data in a field is displayed. |
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| Information about one person or thing. |
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