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by wesley.chin

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What is it? What is it used for? What kind of places use it? What kind of jobs use it?

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by boxfiddler

What is it? A relational database application.

What is it used for? Maintaining and manipulating data.

What kind of places use it? Small businesses, home users.

What kind of jobs use it? Accounting, small retail ops, not-for-profits, inventory management, personnel management, medical/dental clinics to name a few.

Access has some limitations that make it unacceptable for big business.

by ic-it

Seriously, how much and how often. It isn't unusual for IT folks to use Access to maintain an Inventory listing of Software, Hardware, Maintenance records and much more.
I guess if you do nothing but build and maintain Access Databases you could be called an Access DB manager or specialist or any other name the company wants to give you.

by wesley.chin

There is an Access database that someone had started. Right now it is incomplete/corrupted. I've been asked to get the basics of it down and try to fix it. Is it something that can be done quickly?

by boxfiddler

Are you at all familiar with database management as a concept?
How familiar are you with Access as a program?
How large and how corrupted is the database that is currently in place?

by wesley.chin

Are you at all familiar with database management as a concept? no
How familiar are you with Access as a program? no
How large and how corrupted is the database that is currently in place? I have no idea

by boxfiddler

Introduction to database design: [u]Database Design for Mere Mortals[/u], by Michael J. Hernandez.

Using MS Access: Paradigm Publishing, Benchmark series text : [u]Microsoft Access 2007[/u] by Rutkosky, Seguin, Rutkosky. There is also a version of this text available for Access 03.

Peer me the zipped database if it is not too large (my attachment limit is 8M) and I will take a look at it if you like. Clear personal, identifying data from it. I may or may not be able to further advise.

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