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Why use a Database

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVHLTkIXB8

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Access Vs Excel

• Access is a database. Excel is a spreadsheet. Both are useful to displaying data systematically, but a database is enormously more flexible. Access is a relational database, which is even more flexible than an ordinary database and permits the data to be manipulated in many ways.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_would_a_company_use_Microsoft_access_instead_of_Microsoft_Excel

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Using Access or Excel to manage your data

• Microsoft Office Access and Microsoft Office Excel possess many similarities, which can make it difficult to decide which program you should use. For example, both programs can store large amounts of data, run powerful queries and analysis tools to slice and dice that data, and perform sophisticated calculations that return the data that you need.

• However, each program has clear advantages — depending on the type of data that you are managing and what you want to do with that data. For example, if it is your goal to maintain data integrity in a format that can be accessed by multiple users, Access is your best choice, whereas Excel is better suited for complex numerical data that you want to analyze in depth.

• “If you store your data by using Access and analyze it by using Excel, you can gain the benefits of both programs.”

• In many cases, you can use both programs, employing each for the purpose to which it is best suited. In general, Access is better for managing data: helping you keep it organized, easy to search, and available to multiple simultaneous users. Excel is generally better for analyzing data: performing complex calculations, exploring possible outcomes, and producing high quality charts. If you store your data by using Access and analyze it by using Excel, you can gain the benefits of both programs.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access-help/using-access-or-excel-to-manage-your-data-HA010210195.aspx

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Top 10 reasons to use Access with Excel• Reason 1: Copying an Excel worksheet to an Access datasheet• Reason 2: Sharing data by linking to an Excel worksheet from

Access• Reason 3: Moving data by importing Excel data into Access• Reason 4: Connecting to Access data from Excel• Reason 5: Using Access reports with Excel data• Reason 6: Using Access forms with Excel data• Reason 7: Filtering, sorting, and querying in Access is so like

Excel • Reason 8: Collecting data for Excel analysis by using Access• Reason 9: Doing a Mail Merge or creating labels• Reason 10: Combining Excel and Access with SharePoint

technologieshttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/top-10-reasons-to-use-access-with-excel-HA010264081.aspx

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Video on Relationships

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvrpuBAMddw

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