1. Microsoft Access 2000: relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software development tools
2. Data Entry and Update: Entering data into the computer, which includes keyboard entry, scanning and voice recognition, then updates.
3. Queries: To interrogate a collection of data such as records in a database
4. Database: an organized body of related information
5. Table: set of data arranged in rows and columns
6. Records: A group of related fields, such as all demographic information for one customer; also a collection of items in a database.
7. Field: The smallest piece of information in a database record such as the customer’s name, city, or phone number.
8. Unique Identifier: a unique field where all data must different from one another
9. Primary Key: Unique identifier needed in every new table created (Be it SQL, Access, Oracle, etc)
10. Name/Save Database: Access property
11. Objects: Item with inherit properties capable of being manipulated
12. Title Bar: Top screen with identifying title
13. Close: The exit button, typically marked with the letter “X”
14. Menu Bar: Horizontal menu across the upper screen
15. Database Window Toolbar: Control list of properties/functions to manipulate a table/database
16. Icon: Small graphical image, acting as a thumbnail for applications
25. Currency: exchange of money
26. Description: statement in pictures or words
27. Pane: one of the divisions of a window
28. Row Selector: small square to the left of the field in table design
29. Datasheet View: view that lists the records of the object in a datasheet
30. Datasheet: component of a chard that contains the numerical data display in a chart
31. Navigation Buttons: buttons in the lower-left corner of a datasheet or from that allow you to quickly navigate between the records in the underlying object as well as add a new record
32. Form View:
View of a form object that displays data from the underlying recordset and allows you to enter and update area.
33. Form:
An access object that provides an easy-to-use data entry screen that generally shows only one record at a time.
34. Report:
An access object that creates a professional printout of a data that may contain such enhancements as headers, footers, and calculations on groups of records.
35. Page Header:
A section of a form or report that contains controls that print once at the top of each page. On the first page of the report, the Page Header section prints below the report header section
36. Detail Lines:
A line of a form or report that contains the controls that are printed for each record in the underlying query or table
37. Access Help System:
Something that helps you with Access ( A SysteM)
38. Office Assistant:
An animated character that offers tips and that section of the database window.
39. Database Design:
The window that includes common elements such as the access title bar, menubar, and toolbar
40. Redundancy:
being in excess; exceeding what is usual or natural