Enter the appropriate information for at least 10 students and 10 books into the database and arrange it so that exactly 5 of the books are charged out, 3 of them to the same student. At least two of your books must have the same title (but be different books), and at least two of your students must have the same name (but, of course, be different students!).
Construct two queries. The first should show the title of each book that is charged out, the name of the student to whom it is charged out, and the due date. The second query should simply show the name of each student at the school.
Many of the things you will need to decide when designing your database have not been specified in this assignment. For example, the form of a student's name (e.g., first and last, nickname, middle initial, etc.) has not been specified. Nor has the maximum length of a book's title. You may make any reasonable decisions about things which are not specified in this assignment.
Please post your database (i.e., the tables and two queries in one database file) on your homework Web page (7008.html) by making a link from "Homework 5" to your database file, before class on the date that this assignment is due. Please make a note on your Web page which software - Microsoft Access 2000-2003, Microsoft Access 2007, OpenOffice, etc. - you use to create the database.
The basic steps for using Microsoft Access are recorded in the slides for this class. Regardless of the specific software you use to create a database, the basic steps are generally the same: create a database, create tables, define fields, create records by inputing data, create relationships, then create queries and run the queries. There are a lot of tutorials for Microsoft Access and OpenOffice on the Internet. See the syllabus page for some of the tutorials. I have not looked at any tutorials for OpenOffice yet, but you can find them for yourself.