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Examination (November 2025)

Overview

Study Guide

McFadyen, R. (2016) Relational Databases and Microsoft Access. Ron McFadyen.

O'Reilly Books

Assignments and Project

Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Project

Class Tests

DBD 181 CT3

DBD 181 ST

Database Design

(Slides) Lecture 1 Database Design - Part 1

(Slides) Lecture 1 Database Design - Part 2

Exercise 1

Database Normalisation

(Slides) Lesson 02 Database Normalization Part 1

(Slides) Lesson 02 Database Normalization Part 2

Exercise 2

Designing Database Objects

(Slides) Lesson 03 Part 1 Designing the Database Objects

(Slides) Lesson 03 Part 2 Creating Databases and Tables

(Notes) 7-Step Design Process

Exercise 3.1

Exercise 3.2

Database Relationships

(Slides) Lesson 04 Creating Relationships and Entering data

Animal Hospital Database

Exercise 4

Queries

(Slides) Lesson 05 Queries - Part 1

(Slides) Lesson 05 Queries - Part 2

Exercise 5

SQL Introduction

(Slides) Lesson 06 SQL In Access - Part 1

(Slides) Lesson 06 SQL In Access - Part 2

(Slides) Lesson 06 SQL In Access - Part 3

Exercise 6

Exercise 6.1 SQL Queries 1

Exercise 6.2 SQL Queries 2

Forms

(Slides) Lesson 07 Creating Forms in Access Part 1

(Slides) Lesson 07 Creating Forms in Access Part 2

Exercise 7

Reports

(Slides) Lesson 08 Creating Reports in Access

Exercise 8

Basic Database Networking

(Slides) Lesson 09 Basic Database Networking

Exercises

Exercises

Solutions

Resources

Sample databases

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