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Review the Technology Plug-In 6 – Basic Skills and Tools Using Microsoft Access. Complete exercise 1. WasteNot Recycling.
WasteNot Recycling picks up recyclables from homeowners in Boulder, Colorado. Neighborhoods subscribe to the service so that pickup is cost-effective. WasteNot provides special containers to subscribers for sorting recyclables: a blue container for paper products and a purple container for aluminum, plastic, and glass products.
Subscribers place their recycling containers on the curb for biweekly pickup. Each recycling container is weighed before being emptied. WasteNot drivers carry handheld recording devices used to track each pickup. Subscribers receive quarterly profit-sharing checks based on their contributions. If WasteNot does not make a profit, subscribers are not paid for their recyclables. If WasteNot makes a profit, subscribers share in that profit. WasteNot has asked you to help develop a relational database that will effectively track subscribers, using the data downloaded from the drivers’ devices. WasteNot has provided you with a snapshot of two tables you need to create. The Customer table shown here holds static customer information such as name, address, and phone. The Customer Record table holds data about each recyclable pickup.
Specifically, WasteNot needs you to:
1. Create a Microsoft Access database.
2. Create the tables, fields, data types, and primary key(s) for the database.
3. Create the relationship(s) needed between the tables.
4. Populate the database with the data provided above.
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It should look like this:
Name of the datbase = WasteNot.mdb
CustomerTable: Primary Key = CustomerID
| Customer ID | CustomerName | Address | Phone |
| C101 | Jack | 42nd Street | 379924 |
| C102 | Jill | 5th street | 732564 |
| C103 | Mary | Murray Avenue | 348975 |
CustomerRecordTable: Primary Key = ShareID
| ShareID | PickupDate | Subscriber | Weight in Pounds | ProfitMade $2 per pound | Subscriber’sShare 50% |
| S501 | 11 Jan2015 | Jack | 10 | 20 | 11 |
| S502 | 12 Jan 2015 | Jill | 20 | 40 | 20 |
| S503 | 13 Jan 2015 | Peter | 50 | 100 | 50 |
Relationship(s) between the tables:
As the goal is to track the subscribers, we will link the field SubscriberName to the Customer Name.
where,
Subscriber Name is the field in the Customer Record Table; and
Customer Name is the field in the Table Customer Table.
In notation,
CustomerTable.CustomerName <—–Linked to —–> CustomerRecordTable.SubscriberName
select crt.SubscriberName, ct.CustomerName, ct.Address, ct.Phone
from CustomerRecordTabe crt, CustomerTable ct
where
crt.SubscriberName = ct.CustomerName;
crt is an alias for the table Customer Record Table
and ct is an alias for the table Customer Table
Tracking Subscribers Logic:
Each subscriber will be tracked using the unique Subscriber ID that is related to the customer name as explained above.