MS Access Performance Test

20 April 2009 Purpose: To demonstrate the ability to create tables, queries, forms, reports, and establish the appropriate relationships between the tables. Problem: You are the IT director for JJW Discount Warehouse. The president of the company, JW, is wanting to begin electronically keeping track of the growing number of employees and the different departments. You are to create an Access database to demonstrate the usefulness of storing this information in a database. Instructions: 1. Create a database and save it as JJW Employees.accdb 2. Create a table called Employees with the fields Emp_ID, Last_Name, First_Name, Department, Salary, and Hire_Date. Use the appropriate data types for each of these fields (look at the data to determine what the data type should be). Input the following information into the table:

3. Create a table called Departments with the fields Department, Department_Name, and Location. Use the appropriate data types for each of these fields (look at the data to determine what the data type should be) and make sure that the Department field matches the data type of the Department field from the Employees table. Input the following information into the table:

4. Use the Relationship editor to establish an appropriate relationship between the Departments table and the Employees table and Enforce Referential Integrity in the relationship. 5. Create a Query to display all of the Employees with their Emp_ID, Last_Name, First_Name, and Department_Name. Sort the results primarily by the Department number, then by Last_Name, and then by First_Name. The fields in the results should be Emp_ID, Last_Name, First_Name, and then Department_Name. Save the query as Emp_Departments. 6. Create 2 Forms for entering information into the Employees and Departments tables. 7. Create a Report which displays the Department_Name, Last_Name, and First_Name fields from the Emp_Departments query. Call the report Department Employees.

8. Upload the database through the class website.