Knguye66 Week 4

The FDA Drug Database

• The purpose: what was the purpose of your investigations?
• Your methods: what did you actually do? Give a step by step account for Tasks 1-4 listed above. There should be enough detail provided so that you or another person could re-do it based solely on your notebook. You may copy protocol instructions on your page and modify them as to what you actually did, as long as you provide appropriate attribution. Take advantage of the electronic nature of the notebook by providing screenshots, links to web pages, links to data, etc.
• Your results: the answers to the questions below, plus any other results you gathered. Usually it makes sense to embed your answers to the questions/results in the "methods" in the order in which you obtained them.
• A scientific conclusion: what was your main finding for today's project? Did you fulfill the purpose? Why or why not?

Microsoft Access FDA database

FDA Database:

Methods to Create the Database

How to add files (and tables) to database:

1. Change Settings in Google Chrome
2. Advanced --> Download (T:/) & (check) ask where to download
3. Download FDA database
4. Unzip file by right clicking (.7zip) --> extract here
5. Open Microsoft Access
6. Save file (make it personal)
7. Click text file
8. Import text wizard: delimited > tab (check: first row contains field names) > field options > have a primary key (our file already has a primary key: click no or choose primary key as field 1)
   • Important to Note: for each file uploaded, the field options portion is different. Click the Data Type drop-down menu and choose the preferred option:
     • Action Types_Lookup --> Long integer
     • Applicationdocs --> Change "ApplicationDocs" field and last column from "Date and Time" to Short text
     • Products --> N/A (use default setting)

How to Create a Query

1. To add query (called a "select query"), go under Design > Query Design
2. Click and drag all three Tables
3. Find what's similar in all three categories, then Click and drag to create an arrow
   • To create a field/graph: drag submission files down

Different functions learned on Microsoft Access

• Design > View > SQL (view)
• Click "!" to run data

How to Save and Compress files

• Go to (T:/) drive and right click on Microsoft Access FDA database file
• Drag mouse over .7ip > Click "Add to Archive..."

Tables & Query

• Tables:
  • ActionTypes_Lookup File:Knguye66 FDA ActionTypes Lookup.txt
  • ApplicationDocs File:Knguye66 FDA ApplicationDocs.txt
  • Products File:Knguye66 FDA Products.txt

• Query:

Acknowledgements

This week I worked with Mihir Samdarshi User:Msamdars on the FDA Databases assignment, and received help from User:Ntesfaio, as well as instructions from Dr. Dahlquist User:Kdahlquist.

Except for what is noted above, this individual journal entry was completed by me and not copied from another source.