Why would you use queries in databases?

      

Give reasons why you would use queries in databases.

  

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Maurice
(i) Queries are often used as the basis for forms and reports or other queries in database.
Unlike filters, queries can be saved and used as a data source for other Ms Access objects such as reports, forms or data access pages.

(ii) Queries allow you to perform calculations in a database.

(iii) Queries allow you to make changes to data (modify)

(iv) Queries allow the user to extract or retrieve a subset of data from one (or more) tables in a database or from other queries. This means that instead of scanning the whole table, you can pre-define the categories of information which will be sought.

(v) Queries also allow the user to join multiple tables. For example, if you have a table called "customers" and a table called"invoices", you can use a query to join the two tables.
When you run a query that joins these tables, you can get results showing the name of the customer (from the customer table) and all associated invoices (from the invoice table).
maurice.mutuku answered the question on April 12, 2018 at 05:36


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