Access Test
name:Shaw, Marie jnumber: J00032159
Hi Marie
This document is your Access test. It will be available for 4 days. If set on schedule this will be Nov 15
through Nov 18. Below in this Word document is instructions on submitting this test. Entries submitted
after this date will probably receive a zero although your instructor always tries to be accommodating.
However, once the tests begin to be marked (we expect this to start the next weekend) he will refuse to
acknowledge any late coming Email.
This test counts for 20% of your mark. It is expected that a curve will be established for this test.
However, once established it will only apply to those submitting tests. The test submission should be the
Uspop.accdb database you will be working on attached as a file to an email directed to
777rauer@777rauer.com. You should CC yourself on this ti have a copy of your submission. Please
remember we are talking about an access 2010 or 2013 accdb file (not a pdf, winzip, google or office 365
link). Do not be confused and send only the uspop.laccdb as this is not your access database.
Below are 9 questions. All but one require you to write queries or use the tables in the USPOP database.
Where it is designated as aggregate functions, you are required to use sum,avg, cout etc in a query to
answer the question to receive full credit.
Here are the files you will need and the links to get them:
The text file usinfo.txt. The Access database uspop.accdb.Save both these files to your machine in order
to use them and don’t forget to enable content.
For this test, the following applies
Your state is Connecticut
Your year is 1910
designated as yr1910
when accessing the uspop table
Your counties are Fairfield, Middlesex, New Haven
Open up the uspop database. It should look like what you saw in class. Each record contains a state and
county and then information per census data from 1790 through 1960.
You are to do a set of queries which you can designate as q1,q2,q3.. or query1,query2,query3...
q1. There is a text file that you have to access and put on your system. It is indicated above as
usinfo.txt. Use copy and paste to put this into a notepad file. (Note:this is similar to what we did
with the Hurricane problem) Use the external data tab in Access to import this text file into an
Access table. Use the default that should set the table name to usinfo.
q2. For your year, write a query using an aggregate function that indicates the population of the
entire country. There should only be one number as the result of the query. Note: Your answer
should be the result of the query only.
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q3. For your state and your year, write a query showing the population of each county in your state
for your year There is a text file that you have to access and put on your system. It is indicated
above as usinfo.txt. Use copy and paste to put this into a notepad file. (Note:this is similar to
what we did with the Hurricane problem) Use the external data tab in Access to import this text
file into an Access table. Use the default that should set the table name to usinfo.
q4. Write a query using the usinfo table to determine the derivation of the country (Derivation) that
your state is a part of. We will call this your derivation. Write your derivation here to use in the
next (and other) query_____________________________
q5. With this information about derivation from above, write a query that lists the states and each
state's population in your year in your derivation of the country. This will be a join between the
two tables.
q6. There is another table in your database designated as education. Write a query listing the
number of colleges listed for each state in your derivation of the country.
q7. Write a crosstab query showing the number of parttime students where the rows are the states
of your derivation and the columns being the types of the colleges listed
q8. Write a query that lists the population of Your Counties for your year. Remember the Library
discussion on unions and joins which will apply here. Make sure that each county is listed and
the population of that county for your year is listed next to it. Also, there is no requirement of
uniqueness as to county names in this country so add another constraint indicating which state
the query should apply to.
q9. Repeat the above to some degree with a new query, however this time use an aggregate
function in your query design to give a sum of the population of your counties in your year. The
constraints are the same. The result will be only one number. Note: Your answer should be the
result of the query only.
As indicated above, Please submit your Access database – uspop.accdb - to your instructor as
an attached file. Use 777rauer@777rauer.com as the Email address for submission. CC
yourself.