Part I: Access Building Blocks
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Summary
This chapter has covered the important topics of creating new Access databases and adding tables
to Access databases. Although I’ve covered these topics from the perspective of creating brand-new
databases and tables, the operations you performed in this chapter are identical to the maintenance
procedures you perform on existing databases and tables.The next chapter drills into the very important topics of data normalization, referential integrity,
creating relationships, and other operations and procedures required to protect the integrity and
reliability of data in your Access databases. Unless you have a very firm understanding of these
important issues, you should take the time to study the material in Chapter 3 and understand how
Access supports professional database design.