I am struggling greatly with Access, is there anyway I can get help with this project?
Overview
In this hands-on project, you will be downloading a database from the West Side Restaurant Group, the management company for several high-quality restaurants. You will be completing the following tasks in Microsoft Access:
- Create simple and advanced queries
- Modify a query
- Sort records in a query
- Working with different data types
- Creating expressions
Project Preparation
- Download the Lesson 11_Hands On Project 1 file to your course lesson folder.
- Extract the file to the same folder.
- Open the file in Microsoft Access.
- Save your file as “Lesson11_Project1_MEID.accdb” where MEID is your MEID.
Project Directions
- Using the Query Design command, create a query from the Orders Table.
- Double click on the following fields in the Orders table window in the Relationships pane: ID, Restaurant, Item, Cost and Quantity.
- In the Criteria cell under the Restaurant field name type “Ryan’s Bistro”.
- Run the query.
- Add a calculated field to the Ryan’s Bistro query to show the extended cost (In accounting, an extended cost is the unit cost multiplied by the number of those items that were purchased) for each record. You may create the expression manually or use the expression builder.
- Format the Extended Cost column as Currency.
- Sort the query by ascending Extended Cost.
- Right-click the Query 1 tab and then Save and Close. Name your query “Ryan’s Bistro Orders”.
- Create another query from the Orders table.
- Double click on the following fields in the Orders table window in the Relationships pane: ID, Restaurant, Vendor, and Date Purchased
- In the Criteria cell under the Vendor field, type “CMF Restaurant Supply”
- Run the query.
- Right-click the Query 1 tab and then Save and close. Name your query “Supply Orders”.
- Open the Supply Orders query.
- Modify the criteria under the Vendor field type “American Supply Warehouse”.
- Run the query.
- Save and close the query.
- Compact, repair, and save your database.
- Submit the assignment based on the instructions in the lesson.