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This questions requires the collection of data using MS ACCESS You will need to collect information about several titles in each category, which can

This questions requires the collection of data using MS ACCESS

You will need to collect information about several titles in each category, which can be done online, at your local video store, or from your personal media collection. You will be given an initial, un-normalized field list of data items to be tracked, which you will normalize into the appropriate separate tables.

The database students will prepare in this project is somewhat simplified in comparison to a real-world application. For example, only brief customer address information is included, to reduce the amount of data input required for the project.

The initial field list does not include all of the appropriate key fields for the tables that will be created, so suitable key fields should be added to the tables as required.

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The following is a list of essential data items to be recorded. As noted above, additional fields may be required as keys for the tables you will create from these fields.

date of rental

due date

media item title

media item category

category description

category code

customer ID#

customer lastname

customer firstname

customer address

If only a single table were made from all the fields listed above, the result would be a system in which every rental would have to include duplicate customer and media item details. In addition to wasting input time duplicating data, such a system would also be highly prone to error, because any change to customer data (a change of address, for example) would also result in different records showing different content for the same fields, unless every historical record for that customer was updated.

The relational database model was designed to solve those problems by identifying key data entities, separating them into their own tables, and relating the tables using foreign keys. (The foreign key is usually the primary key from one table, placed in one or more other tables to create linkages.)

This allows for customer details, for example, to be recorded once, in a table reserved for that purpose, and referenced in other tables by a unique identifier (key), such as Customer ID#.

The required tables are Customers, Media, Categories, and Rentals; each of which should be properly provided with a primary key, and each of which should be related to other tables as required.

All four database tables should be populated with records as follows:

Customers—at least 10

Categories—three records, one describing each of the media types: DVD, Blu-Ray, or Game

Media—at least 30 records, representing a selection of DVD movies, Blu-Ray movies, and Games.

Rentals—at least 20 records.

Use of a Query, Use of Input Form, OR Report, OR use of Field Attributes (i.e., Input Mask, Caption, or Default Value, for projects completed using MS-Access).

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