Msamdars Week 4

Electronic Lab Notebook

Purpose

This week, we will take an in-depth look at how to create and access a database made in Microsoft Access. By doing this, we will also learn the implications of this database, and how large amounts of data can be handled and access.

Methods

1. Turn on File Extensions
2. Set Download Options
3. Download Database
   1. Scroll down and download Drugs@FDA .zip file
   2. Unzip file
      • Right click -> Extract Here
4. Create Microsoft Access Database
   1. Click Create Blank Database
   2. In Menu Bar, click Import Text File
   3. Choose Text File
   4. Follow import instructions
      • Choose no primary key
5. Query Database
   1. Select Query Design From Menu Bar
   2. Choose appropriate tables for query
   3. Create query by dragging between lines
   4. From Menu bar select Run

Results

Below is the database created in class:

• My Database

Below is the Certificate of Completion

• My Certificate

Conclusion

This week I learned how to work with Microsoft Access. I also successfully created and queried it. However, from a programmer's perspective, working with it was a slow and unintuitive task; I was more used to command line utilities and lines of code that I can write to query a database, and thus, this seemed arcane to me.

Acknowledgements

This week my partner was Kaitlyn Nguyen. We worked in class together.

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

Msamdars (talk) 20:33, 25 September 2019 (PDT)

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References

1. LMU BioDB 2019. (2019). Week 4. Retrieved September 25, 2019, from https://xmlpipedb.cs.lmu.edu/biodb/fall2019/index.php/Week_4
2. MediaWiki (2019). Category: Help. Retrieved September 25, 2019, from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Help
3. Food and Drug Administration (2019). Drugs@FDA Data Files. Retrieved September 25, 2019 from https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-approvals-and-databases/drugsfda-data-files