IEOR 115Industrial and Commercial Data Systems

Fall 2013, Lab 1

Animesh GargPhD Student, IEOR

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Intro to MS Access• Database creation and

management program

• We will learn– Relational Databases– Implementation in MS Access

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Access to MS Access• Install on Personal Laptops– Windows

Get from UC Berkeley Software Centralhttp://ist.berkeley.edu/MS-DL-instructions

– Mac / *nixBootcamp / Parallels / VM

• Use Lab Machines- Guest AccountsUserID: !ieor-e10-15, Pwd: zxc!@#123

• Still Facing problems? Meet me in OH

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What are Databases• Collection of Correlated Lists/Tables

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What are Databases

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Why Database? Why not Excel?• Excel: Good for numerical analysis• No way of capturing Correlation• DB Maintenance is

a problem?• Hence we need,

Relational Databaseto create, maintain,search and analyze data in multiple tablesat once

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Main Features of Access

• Tables• Queries• Forms• Reports

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Tables

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Tables• Data is stored as Rows and Columns

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Tables• Columns = Fields

Fields organizes data by Type• Rows = Records

Record is Unit of information: Tuple

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Forms

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Queries• Analyze data

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Reports• Present data

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Case Study: Library Management

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TerminologyMS Access (Lab) Lecture/Text

Table (Lab 3) Relation (Ch. 5)

Column/Field (Lab 3) Attribute (Ch. 3)

Row/Record (Lab 3) Tuple (Ch. 5)

Relationship View (Lab 4)

Lines indicate foreign keys (Ch. 7)

Relationship View is NOT the same as ER Diagram from lectures

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Quiz• Lab Notes and Quiz posted

http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~ieor115/labs.html

• Deadline: Friday, 13 Sept.

• Reminder: Contact Report Due 9, Sept.Template Posted, please download and use it

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How to submit HW/Quizzes• Pandagrader.com• You will receive a invite, Sign up!• Download HW template from Class Website

(pdf/word)• Fill out answers in Assigned Spaces

without changing Template• Submit as pdf on Pandagrader.com• Make Pdf using: Save as PDF, Scanner or

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