Microsoft Access Documentation

The Oakland County "electronic relational database-management system" standard is Microsoft Access.  In Access, databases consist not only of the basic data, but also of the related items the user can use to work with the data. The components that make up a database are called objects.  Each Access database can consist of different types of objects: tables, forms, queries, reports, macros, and modules.  It enables the user to store, organize, and manipulate collections of information in an electronic format.  After information is stored in a database, the user can manage it in a variety of ways:

• Rearrange information in different ways by sorting in alphabetical or numerical order.
• Extract specific information to view it, work with it, or print it.
• Manipulate and summarize information using totals and averages.

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