1.

Many companies try to manage their business processing using Excel

spreadsheets and file sharing systems. This may be sufficient when the company
is small, but as companies grow these methods exhibit some major
shortcomings as information management tools. What are some of these
deficiencies and how do they affect the business?
Some of the major deficiencies are Data storage, Integration, and Validation. If your
business is small and just starting, you can use Excel spreadsheets to make lists of
your customers and add few details like one address and telephone number. Once your
business starts growing, you may need to store more details about your customers like
shipping and mailing addresses. Telephone and fax numbers and more information
about contact person and their contact number. In this case, Excel may not be able to
fulfill your need and you have to look for better alternatives. For the growing small
business, Access can fulfill their needs as it allows customer to control and organize
these data by creating multiple tables. Also in Excel, finding just a row or column of data
that you need from multiple tables is troublesome.

2. Download the Stoves.accdb Access database in Doc Sharing; it has the

following tables filled with data.
CUSTOMER (CustomerSK, Name, Phone, EmailAddress)
STOVE (SerialNumber, Type, Version, DateofManufacture)
REGISTRATION (CustomerSK, SerialNumber, Date)
STOVE_REPAIR (RepairInvoiceNumber, SerialNumber, Date, Description, Cost,
CustomerSK)
Given these tables, write the SQL code to accomplish the following requests.
1. Show all the data in each of the four tables.
2. List the names and e-mail addresses of all customers who have had a
stove repair that cost more than $50.
3. List all versions of stoves of type "Maytag" that have no record of being
repaired.
You can view the Microsoft tutorial, Create Queries for a New Database, found in
the lecture to learn how to test your queries in Stoves.accdb. Don't worry about
your SQL code being completely correct. It's more important for us to see
different SQL code so we can evaluate and learn from the differences.

1. Show all the data in each of the four tables.

SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER, REGISTRATION, STOVE, STOVE_REPAIR;
2. List the names and e-mail addresses of all customers who have had a stove
repair that cost more than $50.
SELECT CUSTOMER.Name, CUSTOMER.EmailAddress FROM CUSTOMER LEFT
JOIN STOVE_REPAIR ON CUSTOMER.[CustomerSK] = STOVE_REPAIR.
[CustomerSK] WHERE (((STOVE_REPAIR.Cost)>50));
3. List all versions of stoves of type "Maytag" that have no record of being
repaired.
SELECT STOVE.Version, STOVE.Type, STOVE_REPAIR.RepairInvoiceNumber
FROM STOVE LEFT JOIN STOVE_REPAIR ON STOVE.SerialNumber =
STOVE_REPAIR.SerialNumber WHERE (((STOVE.Type)='MAYTAG') AND
((STOVE_REPAIR.RepairInvoiceNumber) Is Null));

How do the two work together in a business process?

In a business process these two can work very efficiently. If any business is
using MS Access as their database management tool, there are numbers of
reason that these two will work together for:
1: Copying an Excel worksheet to an Access datasheet
2: Sharing data by linking to an Excel worksheet from Access
3: Moving data by importing Excel data into Access
4: Connecting to Access data from Excel
5: Using Access reports with Excel data
6: Using Access forms with Excel data
7: Filtering, sorting, and querying in Access is so like Excel
8: Collecting data for Excel analysis by using Access
9: Doing a Mail Merge or creating labels
10: Combining Excel and Access with SharePoint technologies
Reference:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/top-10-reasons-to-use-accesswith-excel-HA010264081.aspx