Torrance California Parks

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The 30 city parks in Torrance are maintained and administered by the Torrance City Parks Department. Parks in Torrance are typically open from 6 AM to 10 PM unless there are usage restrictions. City regulations do sometimes update the opening and closing hours for the parks. Find more about Torrance California at the Torrance database programmer company page.

List of Torrance California Parks

Alta Loma Park

26126 Delos Drive
Torrance, CA 90505
Land Area: 5.5
BBQ grills
Basketball Half Court
Children’s Play Equipment
Fitness Path – .26 mile
Handicapped Access
Meeting Room, reservations accepted
Picnic Area
Restrooms

Columbia Park

4045 190th Street
Torrance, CA 90504
Land Area: 52.0
Handicapped Access
Picnic Area, reservations accepted
BBQ grills
Softball Diamond, reservations accepted
Soccer Fields, reservations accepted
Children’s Play Equipment
Fitness Course 1.32 miles
Restrooms
Horseshoe Courts
Sand Volleyball Court
Community Gardens

Columbia Park is a recreational urban regional park in the City of Torrance, Los Angeles County, California. The park is quite large and is 52-acre (21 ha) in size. Here you can find everything from soccer fields to bocce ball courts, soccer fields, baseball fields, and community gardens. You’ll never be bored at this sprawling green space that also features walking paths for those who enjoy jogging or running competitive cross country style.

Columbia Park is a wonderful space for all sorts of athletic activities. The park includes six soccer fields, two baseball diamonds, and a roller hockey rink. In addition to these fantastic options for sports lovers there’s also an 1-mile long walking path which can be divided into 2 smaller paths: one west section at 0.75 miles (1km) in length and the other east section at just under half that distance. The Columbia Parks jog trail offers runners the chance to get some exercise while enjoying scenic views as it winds its way through beautiful woods around this terrific outdoor destination.

At the Community Garden, residents can plant vegetables and flowers to share with others who live in their neighborhood. The Home Gardening Learning Center provides helpful tips on how people of all ages can grow healthy foods from plants they’ve grown themselves or received as gifts; it also offers classes that teach visitors how to compost so food scraps don’t go into landfills where they emit dangerous methane gas.

De Portola Park

25615 Lazy Meadow Drive
Torrance, CA 90505
Facilities:
Acres: 12.5
Picnic Area
BBQ grills
Softball Diamond, reservations accepted
Basketball Court
Sand Volleyball Court
Children’s Play Equipment
Restrooms

Delthorne Park

3401 Spencer Street
Torrance, CA 90503
Facilities:
Acres: 9.7
Handicapped Access
Picnic Area
BBQ grills
Basketball Court
Children’s Play Equipment
Rubberized Fitness Course 0.5 mile
Restrooms

Descanso Park

2500 Descanso Way
Torrance, CA 90504
Facilities:
Acres: 3.0
Picnic Area
Softball Diamond
Children’s Play Equipment
.27 Mile Fitness Course; includes Exercise Stations
Handicapped Access

Discovery Park

22526 Ocean Ave.
Torrance, CA 90505
Facilities:
Acres: .39
Children’s Play Equipment
Picnic Shelter
Barbecue
Universally Handicapped Accessible

El Nido Park

18301 Kingsdale Avenue
Redondo Beach, CA 90278
Facilities:
Acres: 4.8
Meeting Room, reservations accepted
Kitchen
Picnic Area, reservations accepted
BBQ grills
Softball Diamond, reservations accepted
Basketball Court
Children’s Play Equipment
Restrooms
Handicapped Access

El Prado Park

El Prado Avenue – between Carson St. & Cravens Ave.
Torrance, CA 90501
Facilities:
Acres: 2.9
Passive park/ green belt
Centennial Plaza

Entradero Park

5500 Towers Street
Torrance, CA 90503
Facilities:
Acres: 26.5
Picnic Area
BBQ grills
Softball Diamond
Basketball Court
Children’s Play Equipment
Restrooms
Adjacent to Entradero Sump
Home of West Torrance Little League

Greenwood Park

1520 Greenwood Avenue
Torrance, CA 90503
Facilities:
Acres: 3.4
Rooms, reservations accepted for meetings only
Kitchen
Basketball Court
Children’s Play Equipment
Handicapped Access

Guenser Park

17800 Gramercy Place
Torrance, CA 90504
Facilities:
Acres: 7.8
Picnic Area
BBQ grills
Softball Diamond, reservations accepted
Basketball Court
Horseshoe Court
Children’s Play Equipment
Fitness Course 0.3 mile
Restrooms

Hickory Park

2850 232nd Street
Torrance, CA 90503
Facilities:
Acres: 5.8
Picnic Area
BBQ grills
Tennis Court
Sand Volleyball Court
Children’s Play Equipment
Restrooms

La Carretera Park

2040 186th Street
Torrance, CA 90504
Facilities:
Acres: 3.1
Picnic Area
BBQ grills
Softball Diamond
Basketball Court
Children’s Play Equipment
La Paloma Park
Lomita Blvd. east of Anza
Torrance, CA 90505
Facilities:
Acres: .4
Picnic Area
Barbecue
Children’s Swing Set

La Romeria Park

19501 Inglewood Avenue
Torrance, CA 90503
Facilities:
Acres: 6.6
Meeting Room, reservations accepted
Kitchen
Picnic Area
BBQ grills
Softball Diamond, reservations accepted
Basketball Court
Tennis Court
Horseshoe Courts
Children’s Play Equipment
Restrooms
Handicapped Access

Lago Seco Park

3920 235th Street
Torrance, CA 90505
Facilities:
Acres: 14.7
Picnic Area
BBQ grills
Softball Diamond
Basketball Courts
Children’s Play Equipment
Restrooms
Home of the Riviera Little League
Community Gardens
Fitness Course

Los Arboles ‘Rocketship’ Park

5101 Calle de Ricardo
Torrance, CA 90505
Facilities:
Acres: 6.3
Picnic Area
Children’s Play Equipment
Handicapped Access

Madrona Marsh Preserve

The Madrona Marsh Preserve is located in Torrance California. The city of Torrance is situated in the South Bay region of Southern California. Madrona Marsh Preserve is a seasonal wetland with vernal pools. The 43 acres was once an oil drilling site and one of few natural landscapes left within urban area. Formed when mountains rose to south Palos Verdes Peninsula eons ago; this shallow depression is fed by rainy season storms as “vernal” indicates (spring). After the spring season, water depth decreases about 1/4 inch per day due to evaporation.

Bird watchers and the Audubon society have been visiting Madrona Marsh for decades, but its popularity has increased over time. Ongoing efforts are restoring native plants including wildflowers to make it an even more attractive destination. Plantings may benefit local butterfly species such as the Palos Verdes blue that frequents this habitat in search of nectar and other resources. The area is popular with both birdwatchers and biology students who use it as a lab to study their favorite subjects outside in nature’s classroom.

The Madrona Marsh Nature Center is a wonderful nature center in Torrance and hosts many exciting, informative activities such as bird walks to see all the beautiful birds that come through. There are also interesting exhibits about marsh plants which can be very useful for those looking to get started landscaping their yards with native California plants.

McMaster Park

3624 Artesia Boulevard
Torrance, CA 90504
Facilities:
Acres: 5.5
Meeting Room, reservations accepted
Kitchen
Picnic Area
Softball Diamond, reservations accepted
Basketball Court
Children’s Play Equipment
Restrooms
Adjacent to North Torrance Library
Access for Handicapped individuals

Miramar Park

201 Paseo de la Playa
Redondo Beach, 90277
Facilities:
Acres: 1.1
Scenic Ocean View
Wedding Ceremony Site, reservations required
Fido Fountain, Bike racks, steps with rails, dolphin memorial statue

Osage Park

17008 Osage Avenue
Torrance, CA 90504
Facilities:
Acres: 4.8
Picnic Area
Children’s Play Equipment
Handicapped Access

Paradise Park

5006 Lee Street
Torrance, CA 90503
Facilities:
Acres: 4.7
Picnic Area, reservations accepted
BBQ grills
Tennis Courts
Children’s Play Equipment
Restrooms

Pequeno Park

Regina Avenue and 180th Street
Torrance, CA 90504
Facilities:
Acres: 0.7
Picnic Area, reservations accepted
BBQ grills
Children’s Play Equipment
Handicapped Access

Pueblo Recreation Center

2252 Del Amo Boulevard
Torrance, CA 90501
Facilities:
Acres: 0.5
Meeting Rooms
Kitchen
Picnic Area
BBQ grills
Basketball Court
Children’s Play Equipment
Restrooms

Riviera Park

Bounded by Catalina Avenue and Palos Verdes Drive
Torrance, CA 90505
Facilities:
Acres: 0.3
Passive park
Small walkways and trails

Sea Aire Park

22730 Lupine Drive
Torrance, CA 90505
Golf Course Phone: (310) 316-9779
Acres: 5.2 includes golf course
Facilities:
Meeting Room, reservations accepted
Kitchen
Restrooms
Children’s Play Equipment
Sea Aire Golf Course:
Golf Course Hours & Info
Short 9 hole Golf Course

Seaside Heroes Park

22851 Anza Avenue
Torrance, CA 90505
Facilities:
Acres: 3
Children’s Play Equipment

Sunnyglen Park

5525 Del Amo Boulevard
Torrance, CA 90503
Facilities:
Acres: 5.5
Picnic Area
BBQ grills
Softball Diamond
Basketball Court
Children’s Play Equipment
Fitness Course 0.28 mile

Sur La Brea Park

23610 Cabrillo Avenue
Torrance, CA 90501
Facilities:
Acres: 7.4
Meeting Room, reservations accepted
Kitchen
Picnic Area
BBQ grills
Softball Diamond
Basketball Court
Tennis Courts
Children’s Play Equipment
Fitness Course 0.31 mile
Restrooms

Torrance Park

2001 Santa Fe Avenue
Torrance, CA 90501
Facilities:
Acres: 10.2
Picnic Area, reservations accepted
Outdoor Band Shell
BBQ grills
Baseball Diamond
Basketball Court
Children’s Play Equipment
Restrooms
Handicapped Access

Victor Park

4727 Emerald Street
Torrance, CA 90505
Facilities:
Acres: 6.6
Picnic Area, reservations accepted
Large Open Grass Area
BBQ grills
1/2 Basketball Court
Children’s Play Equipment
Fitness Path with Exercise Stations
Horseshoe Courts
Adjacent to Henderson Library
Handicapped Access

Walteria Park

3855 242nd Street
Torrance, CA 90505
Facilities:
Acres: 4.5
Meeting Room, reservations accepted
Kitchen
Picnic Area, reservations accepted
BBQ grills
Fire Pit, reservations accepted
Softball Diamond, reservations accepted
Basketball Court
Horseshoe Courts
Tennis Court
Children’s Play Equipment and
Exercise Area
Restrooms
Adjacent to Walteria Library
Handicapped Access

 

Wilson (Charles H.) Park

2200 Crenshaw Boulevard
Torrance, CA 90501
Facilities:
Acres: 44.1
Handicapped Access
Picnic Areas, reservations accepted
BBQ grills
Live Steamers Railroad
Softball Diamonds, reservations accepted
Basketball Courts
Horseshoe Courts
Sand Volleyball Courts
Outdoor Amphitheatre with pond, reservations accepted
Universally Accessible Tree House
Tennis Courts
Paddle Tennis Courts
Roller Hockey Rink, reservations accepted
Batting Cages
Indoor Sports Center, reservations accepted
Children’s Play Equipment
Fitness Course 0.91 mile
Restrooms
Home of the Torrance Certified Farmers Market

 

What Is A Park?

An area of protected natural, semi-natural and planted space that is set aside to human recreation and enjoyment or the preservation of wildlife or other natural habitats is called a park. Urban parks include green areas that are set aside to be used for recreation within cities. You can also find country parks or national parks in your locality. The sub-national governments of the states and agencies that manage provincial and state parks as well as those in national parks, are responsible for their administration. You may find parks made up of rocks, soil, trees, and grassy areas. But, they may also have buildings, fountains, monuments, and other artifacts. Parks often have fields that can be used for football or baseball. There may also be paved areas to use for basketball. Parks often have paths for hiking, biking or other recreational activities. Many parks have a dock, beach, or are located next to rivers or bodies of water. Urban parks may have benches to sit on and include picnic tables or barbecue grills.

Some parks are vast areas with hundreds of thousand of square kilometers or miles of natural beauty, and abundant wildlife. A permit is required to camp in tents within large national parks. Many parks in nature are protected under law. Therefore, users will need to adhere to certain restrictions. Open fires are prohibited, as well as the use of glass bottles. A park ranger oversees large sub-national and national parks. Park rangers are usually assigned to large parks. They may be able to offer canoeing, hiking, or cross-country skiing, as well as snowshoeing, during the colder months. You can find amusement parks with live entertainments, fairground rides and refreshments as well as games of skill or chance.

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If your business is located in Los Angeles, CA, this information can help acquaint you with functionalities and features of Microsoft Access. The material here can be used with earlier versions of Access, including Access 2019,2016, 2013, 2010, and 2007 and Access for Office 365. Familiarity with the components of Microsoft Access – tables, tables, forms, queries, and other objects will help you understand more about how Access works to create a workable database solution for your business.

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Here’s a short high level view of an Microsoft Access database. Access has excellent tools for you to use to view and learn about database structure. The information below will explain why, how, and when you can use these tools.

The information for this article is designed around the desktop (traditional) Microsoft Access database system. Tools, like data entry forms are used with the current and previous versions of MS Access. However, some of this material will not apply to the Microsoft Access web databases or the now retired Access web apps.

The material in this article contains:

• Overview
• How to view details about the objects in a database
• Design view for an Access table
• View Relationships between tables

Microsoft Access Database Overview

What is a database? A database is a collection of information that relates to a specific topic, purpose, or subject. Examples include information like a music collection, customer tracking of orders, or contact names, address, and phone numbers. Information like this was formerly stored on paper, or often, not captured at all. To get the most out of your computer database program, these other forms of data must be recreated in the database software.

What would happen if you need to store basic information for customers, but the data is located in multiple locations? For example, suppose the data for your suppliers are stored in various locations: in a card file containing supplier phone numbers, addresses stored on a paper list, and a duplicate file stored in an old spreadsheet. When changes occur, you may be required to change data in these multiple locations.

In a professionally developed Microsoft Access database, a supplier’s phone numbers is stored only 1 time. When you need to update a phone number, you so you only have to update that information in one place. As a result, when you update a supplier’s phone number, it is automatically updated wherever you use it in the database.

About Microsoft Access Database Files

You can use Access to manage all of your information in one file. Within an Access database file, you can use:

• MS Access Tables for data storage
• Queries for locating and retrieving specific data
• Forms are used to add, update and view table data
• Reports are used to print or analyze data in a specified layout
• Table Data can be used in a query, form, and a report

The items listed above: The tables, queries, forms, and reports are all “database objects.”

Microsoft Access Linked Table Feature

A Microsoft Access database can link to tables that are data storage in other databases. You could create one Access database that contains only database tables, then create another MS Access database with links to the tables in the first database. You can also creates queries, forms, and reports that use data in those linked tables. Database applications utilizing linked tables are very efficient and are considered an excellent method for designing and developing database systems.

Tables And Their Relationships

For proper data storage, each table should contain a specific type of information. Information types include products, customers, or order details. Relationships are used to bring the data together from any number of queries, forms, or reports.

However, web databases do not use Relationships object tab for creating relationships. Lookup fields are used to create relationships in a web database. Here are examples of data stored in tables that are joined by using related fields.

• A Customers table can contain the information that was once in a mailing list.
• An Orders table can contain information that was once located within a spreadsheet.
• To differentiate on record from another, a proper database uses a unique ID, like a customer id. You can then one table’s unique ID field to another table for defining a relationship between the two fields. Then Microsoft Access can use related records from the two tables (in this example) so that data can be used in reports, forms, or queries.

Access Queries

Microsoft Queries are a form of “question” that retrieves data meeting the specified conditions. This can be used with data from multiple tables. A query can be used to update and/or delete multiple records during its execution and can be used for custom calculations with the data. A query cannot be used to update or delete records with a web database.

Here are some examples of what queries can do:

The Customers table has information about customers, while the Orders table has information about customer orders.

A query can be developed that retrieves the Order ID and a Required Date data from the Orders table, and the Company Name, City, State, and Zip Code data from the Customers table. In this example: A query is created that will return only orders that were required in April, and only for customers who are based in New York City.

Microsoft Access Forms

You can use a form to easily view, enter, and change data one row at a time. You can also use a form to perform other actions, such as sending data to another application. Forms typically contain controls that are linked to underlying fields in tables. When opening an Access form, the application will return data from one or more of those tables. The software will then display the data in a layout that you specify when creating the form. You can create a form by using the Form Wizard, or create a form yourself, or use one of the Form commands on the Ribbon in Design view.

Web databases require that you use Layout view, not Design view, to create reports and forms.

About Access Forms

Forms can be used to enter and view data. Here’s an example:

A table displays many records at the same time, but this requires scrolling to view all of the data in one single record. Additionally, when viewing a table in you will not be able to update data in multiple tables in one procedure.

A form can retrieve and display one record at a time, plus a form can display multiple fields from multiple tables. Plus, a form can also be used to display pictures and other objects.

You can use a button on a form for clicking to open other objects and forms, click to print a report, or automate other tasks.

Access Reports

You can use a Microsoft Access report to quickly analyze your data or to present it a certain way in print or in other formats. For example, you may send a colleague a report that groups data and calculates totals. Or, you may create a report with address data formatted for printing mailing labels.

Uses For Access Reports

• A report can be used to create different types of mailing labels
• Chart totals can be displayed in a report
• A report can be used to display calculated totals

Built In Tools

Database Documenter

One of the best ways to learn about a particular database is by using the Database Documenter. You use the Database Documenter to build a report containing detailed information about the objects in a database. You first choose which objects will be detailed in the report. When you run the Database Documenter, its report contains all of the data about the database objects that you selected.

Open the database that you want to document. On the Database Tools tab, in the Analyze group, click Database Documenter. In the Documenter dialog box, click the tab that represents the type of database object that you want to document. To create a report on all of the objects in a database, click the All Object Types tab. Select one or more of the objects listed on the tab. To select all of the objects on a tab, click Select All. Click OK.

The Database Documenter creates a report that contains detailed data for each selected object, and then opens the report in Print Preview. For example, if you run the Database Documenter against a data entry form, the report created by the Documenter lists the properties for the form as a whole, the properties for each of the sections in the form, and the properties for any buttons, labels, text boxes, and other controls on the form, plus any code modules and user permissions that are associated with the form.

To print the report, on the Print Preview tab, in the Print group, click Print.

Use Design View To Examine A Table

Please note; you cannot use design view for web databases.

You can open a table in the Design view to get a detailed view for table structure.You can locate the data type for each field, find if the table uses lookup fields for queries to extract table data, or see if there are any input masks. Data types and input mask settings can impact your ability to locate data and running update queries. For example: Queries require that field types in both source and destination tables must match.

To perform the analysis, open the database you are inspecting

• In the Navigation Pane, right-click the table that you want to explore, and then click Design View on the shortcut menu.
• As needed, note the name of each table field and the data type assigned to each field.
• The data type assigned to a field can limit the size and type of data that users can enter in a field.

For example, the database users might be limited to entering only 25 characters in a text field, plus they might be limited to entering only numerical data into another field.

Is this a Lookup Field – you can find out if a field is a lookup field by clicking the Lookup tab in the lower section of the table design grid within the Field Properties.

About Lookup Fields

A lookup field displays one set of values (one or more fields, such as a first and last name), but usually stores a different set of values (one field, such as a numeric ID). For example, a lookup field may store an employee’s ID number (the stored value), but it displays the employee’s name (the displayed value). When you use a lookup field in expressions or in find and replace operations, you use the stored value, not the displayed value. Becoming familiar with the stored and displayed values of a lookup field is the best way to make sure that an expression or a find and replace operation that uses the lookup field works the way that you expect.

Lookup Field

When using a Lookup field the settings that you see in the Row Source property of the field will vary.

Use a query or a table as the lookup field data source. You can also use a query to retrieve data from another table

A lookup field can use a query to retrieve data from another table. There is another type of lookup field; the value list, that will use a programmed list of choices.

Using A Value List

The value list can be used a lookup field data source. As a default value, the value list uses the text data type.

The quickest method to locate lookup and value lists is to display the Lookup tab. Next click on entries in for each field in the table by clicking the Data Type column.

Relationships

To view a graphical representation of database tables, plus the fields in each table as well as the table relationships, you can use the Relationships Object tab. The Relationships Object tab gives an overall view of the database table and relationship structure, which is important crucial information when creating or editing relationships between tables. The Relationships Object tab can be used to add, edit, or delete relationships.

How To Use Relationships

Open the database that you want to analyze, then find the Database Tools tab; next locate Relationships group and click on Relationships. The Relationships object tab will appear and displays the relationships between all the tables in the current database. As with many Access tools and features, the Relationships object tab is not used for web databases.

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New For Microsoft Access 2016
Support For Large Number (BigInt)

In March, 2017, the Microsoft Access Development Team announced new support for the Large Number data type in Microsoft Access. This additional feature came in response to a large number of requests listed in the Microsoft Access UserVoice forum. Many external data sources are imported or linked to Access utilize Big Int, therefore is very important for Access to include this feature.

Much of the following information first appeared in an article in the Microsoft 365 Blog March 6, 2017.

Developers Can Now Use Large Number Field

Large Number (BigInt), which is now a supported data type, provides additional analytical capability and deepens the integration experience when users are importing or linking to/with BigInt data. When creating new local tables or editing existing ones, Access now allows users to add fields that store BigInt numbers.

Access Can Now Turn On/Off Large Number For Linked Or Imported Tables

Customers specifically asked for the ability to import BigInt columns and link to tables with BigInt columns in a native way. We added an option for users to turn on/off support for Large Number in the current database. Turning Large Number support on allows users to import from and link to tables with BigInt columns, and have them represented in Access in a Large Number format.

Currently, support for Large Number in Access 2016 is available to Office 365 subscribers. This feature will first roll out to Office Insider participants and later to consumer and commercial Office 365 subscribers.

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In talking to prospective clients, we find that most people are not aware of the power provided by a Microsoft Access database program. Many people see is as either very complex and complicated and difficult to use, or as a software package that does not have enough enterprise computing power. Others feel that it is a serious developer product intended for no one but experienced application developers. This article dispels the myths of Access. It helps you to decipher what Access is and what it isn’t. After reading the article, you will know when Access is the tool for you, and when it makes sense to explore other products.

Microsoft Access is a very flexible product. You can use Access to develop a personal application, or to develop an enterprise-wide corporate application. Access offers a variety of features for different database needs. You can use Access to develop these general types of applications:

• Corporation-wide applications
• Departmental applications
• Small-business applications
• Personal applications

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Access as a Development Platform for Personal Applications

At its most fundamental level, you can use Access to develop simple personal database-management systems. I caution people against this idea, though. People who buy Access hoping to automate everything from their exercise history to their home finances are often disappointed. The problem is that Access is deceptively easy to use. Its wonderful built-in wizards make Access look like a product that anyone can use. After answering a series of questions, you have finished application switchboards, data-entry screens, reports, and the underlying tables that support them.

In fact, when Microsoft first released Access, many people asked if I was concerned that my business as a computer programmer and trainer would diminish because Access seemed to let absolutely anyone write a database application. Although it’s true that you can produce the simplest of Access applications without any thought of design and without a single line of code written by the user, most applications require at least some designing and custom code.

As long as you’re satisfied with a wizard-generated personal application with only minor modifications, no problems should occur. It’s when you want to substantially customize a personal application that problems develop.

Access as a Development Platform for Small-Business Applications

Access is an excellent platform for developing an application that can run a small business. Its wizards let developers quickly and easily build the application’s foundation. The ability to build code modules allows developers to create code libraries of reusable functions, and the ability to add code behind forms and reports allows them to create powerful custom forms and reports.

The main limitation of using Access for developing a custom small-business application is the time and money involved in the development process. Many people use Access wizards to begin the development process but find they need to customize their application in ways they can’t accomplish on their own. Small-business owners often experience this problem on an even greater scale. The demands of a small-business application are usually much higher than those of a personal application. Many doctors, attorneys, or other professionals call me after they reach a dead end in the development process. They’re always dismayed at how much money it will cost to make their application usable.

Access as a Development Platform for Departmental Applications
Access is perfect for developing applications for departments in large corporations. It’s relatively easy to upgrade departmental users to the appropriate hardware: for example, it’s much easier to buy additional RAM for 15 users than it is for 4,000! Furthermore, Access’s performance is adequate for most departmental applications without the need for client/server technology. Finally, most departments in large corporations have the development budgets to produce well-designed applications.

Fortunately, most departments usually have a PC guru, who is more than happy to help design forms and reports. This gives the department a sense of ownership because they have contributed to the development of their application. It also makes my life as a developer much easier. I can focus on the hard-core development issues, leaving some of the form and report design tasks to the local talent.

Access as a Development Platform for Corporation-Wide Applications

Although Access might be best suited for departmental applications, it can also be used to produce applications that are distributed throughout the organization. How successful this endeavor is depends on the corporation. There’s a limit to the number of users who can concurrently share an Access application while maintaining acceptable performance, and there’s also a limit to the number of records that each table can contain without a significant performance drop. These numbers vary depending on factors such as the following:

• How much traffic already exists on the network?
• How much RAM and how many processors does the server have?
• How the server is already being used? For example, are applications such as Microsoft Office being loaded from the server or from local workstations?
• What types of tasks are the users of the application performing? Are they querying, entering data, running reports, and so on?
• Where are Access and your Access application run from – the server or the workstation?
• What network operating system is in place?

A general rule of thumb for an Access application that’s not client/server is that poor performance generally results with more than 10-15 concurrent users and more than 100,000 records. Remember, these numbers vary immensely depending on the factors mentioned, as well as on the definition of acceptable performance by you and your users.

Access programmers often misunderstand what Access is and what it isn’t when it comes to being a client/server database platform. We’re often asked, “Isn’t Access a ‘client/server’ database?” The answer is that Access is an unusual product because it’s a file server application out of the box, but it can act as a front end to a client/server database. In case you’re lost, here’s an explanation: If you buy Access and develop an application that stores the data on a file server in an Access database, Access performs all data processing on the workstation.

This means that every time the user runs a query or report, Access brings all the data over to the workstation and runs the query on the workstation machine. It displays the results in a datasheet or on a report. This process generates a significant amount of network traffic, particularly if multiple users are running reports and queries at the same time on large Access tables. In fact, such operations can bring the entire network to a crawl.

Access as a Development Platform For Enterprise-Wide Client Server Applications

A client/server database, such as Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle, processes queries on the server machine and returns results to the workstation. The server software itself can’t display data to the user, so this is where Access comes to the rescue. Acting as a front end, Access can display the data retrieved from the database server in reports, datasheets, or forms. If the user updates the data in an Access form, Access sends the update to the back-end database. You can accomplish this either by linking to these external databases so that they appear to both you and the user as Access tables, or by using techniques that access client/server data directly.

One of Access’s biggest strong points is its scalability. An application that begins as a small-business application running on a standalone machine can be scaled to an enterprise-wide client/server application. If you design your application properly, scaling can be done with little to no rewriting of your application. This feature makes Access an excellent choice for growing businesses, as well as for applications being tested at a departmental level with the idea that they might eventually be distributed corporation-wide.

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Here’s a short high level view of an Microsoft Access database. MS Access has excellent tools for you to use to view and learn about database structure. The information below will explain why, how, and when you can use these tools.

The information for this article is designed around the desktop (traditional) Microsoft Access database system. Tools, like data entry forms are used with the current and previous versions of MS Access. However, some of this material will not apply to the Microsoft Access web databases or the now retired Access web apps.

The material in this article contains:

• Overview
• How to view details about the objects in a database
• Design view for an Access table
• View Relationships between tables

Database Definition and Basics

What is a database? A database is a collection of information that relates to a specific topic, purpose, or subject. Examples include information like a music collection, customer tracking of orders, or contact names, address, and phone numbers. Information like this was formerly stored on paper, or in many organizations, not captured at all. To get the most out of your computer database program, data not already stored on a computer
must be recreated in the database software.

What would happen if you need to store basic information for customers, but the data is located in multiple locations? For example, suppose the data for your suppliers are stored in various locations: in a card file containing supplier phone numbers, addresses stored on a paper list, and a duplicate file stored in an old spreadsheet. When changes occur, you may be required to change data in these multiple locations.

In a Microsoft Access database developed by a professional programmer or company, a supplier’s phone numbers is stored only 1 time. When you need to update a phone number, you so you only have to update that information in one place. As a result, when you update a supplier’s phone number, it is automatically updated wherever you use it in the database. When all data is stored as the smallest unit possible, the data is said to be “atomic.”

Microsoft Access Database Files

You can use Access to manage all of your information in one file. Within an Access database file, you can use:

• MS Access Tables for data storage
• Queries for locating and retrieving specific data
• Forms are used to add, update and view table data
• Reports are used to print or analyze data in a specified layout
• Visual Basic For Applications (VBA) programming language
• Microsoft Access data import feature to convert other forms of data to Access
• Table Data in a query, form, and a report

Note:tables, queries, forms, and reports are all “database objects.”

The Linked Table Feature In Microsoft Access

A Microsoft Access database can link to tables that are data storage in other databases. You could create one Access database that contains only database tables, then create another Microsoft Access database with links to thetables in the first database. You can also creates queries plus forms and reports that use data in the Access linked tables. Database applications utilizing linked tables are very efficient and are considered an excellent method for designing and developing database systems.

Microsoft Access Tables And Their Relationships

For proper data storage, each table should contain a specific type of information. Information types include products, customers, or order details. Relationships are used to bring the data together from any number of queries, forms, or reports.

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Web databases do not use Relationships object tab for creating relationships. Lookup fields are used to create relationships in a web database. Here are examples of data stored in Microsof Access tables that are joined by using related fields.

• A Customers table can contain the information that was once in a mailing list.
• An Orders table can contain information that was once located within a spreadsheet.
• An Employees table can contain information imported from an Excel spreadsheet

To differentiate one record from another, a proper database uses a unique ID, like a customer id. You can then one table’s unique ID field to another table for defining a relationship between the two fields. Then Microsoft Access can use related records from the two tables (in this example) so that data can be used in reports, queries and forms.

Microsoft Access Database Queries

Microsoft Access Queries are a form of “question” that retrieves data meeting the specified conditions. This can be used with data from multiple tables. A query can be used to update and (or) delete multiple records during its execution and can be used for custom calculations with the data. A query cannot be used to update or delete records with a web database.

Examples of Microsoft Access Queries:

The Customers table has information about customers, while the Orders table has information about customer orders.

A query can be developed that retrieves the Order ID and a Required Date data from the Orders table, and the Company Name, City, State, and Zip Code data from the Customers table. In this example: A query is created that will return only orders that were required in April, and only for customers who are based in Santa Ana California.

Microsoft Access Database Forms

You can use a form to easily view, enter, and change data one row at a time. You can also use a form to perform other actions, such as sending data to another application. Forms typically contain controls that are linked to underlying fields in tables. When opening an Access form, the application will return data from one or more of those tables. The software will then display the data in a layout that you specify when creating the form. You can create a form by using the Form Wizard, or create a form yourself, or use one of the Form commands on the Ribbon in Design view.

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MS Access forms can be used to enter and view data. Here’s an example:

A table displays many records at the same time, but this requires scrolling to view all of the data in one single record. Additionally, when viewing a table in you will not be able to update data in multiple tables in one procedure.

An Access form can retrieve and display one record at a time, plus a form can display multiple fields from multiple tables. Plus, a form can also be used to display pictures and other objects.

You can use a button on a form for clicking to open other objects and forms, click to print a report, or automate other tasks.

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Microsoft Access Database Reports

You can use a Microsoft Access report to quickly analyze your data or to present it a certain way in print or in other formats. For example, you may send a colleague a report that groups data and calculates totals. Or, you may create a report with address data formatted for printing mailing labels.

Uses For Microsoft Access Reports

• A report can be used to create different types of mailing labels
• Chart totals can be displayed in a report
• A report can be used to display calculated totals

Microsoft Access Built In Tools

Database Documenter

One of the best ways to learn about a particular database is by using the Database Documenter. You use the Database Documenter to build a report containing detailed information about the objects in a database. You first choose which objects will be detailed in the report. When you run the Database Documenter, its report contains all of the data about the database objects that you selected.

To use the Database Documenter, open the database that you want to document. On the Database Tools tab, in the Analyze group, click Database Documenter. In the Documenter dialog box, click the tab that represents the type of database object that you want to document. To create a report on all of the objects in a database, click the All Object Types tab. Select one or more of the objects listed on the tab. To select all of the objects on a tab, click Select All. Click OK.

The Database Documenter creates a report that contains detailed data for each selected object, and then opens the report in Print Preview. For example, if you run the Database Documenter against a data entry form, the report created by the Documenter lists the properties for the form as a whole, the properties for each of the sections in the form, and the properties for any buttons, labels, text boxes, and other controls on the form, plus any code modules and user permissions that are associated with the form.

To print the report, on the Print Preview tab, in the Print group, click Print.

Use Design View To Examine A Table

Open an Access table in the Design view to get a detailed view for table structure.You can locate the data type for each field, find if the table uses lookup fields for queries to extract table data, or see if there are any input masks. Data types and input mask settings can impact your ability to locate data and running update queries. For example: Queries require that field types in both source and destination tables must match.

To perform the analysis, open the database you are inspecting

• In the Navigation Pane, right-click the table that you want to explore, and then click Design View on the shortcut menu.
• As needed, note the name of each table field and the data type assigned to each field.
• The data type assigned to a field can limit the size and type of data that users can enter in a field.

For example, the database users might be limited to entering only 25 characters in a text field, plus they might be limited to entering only numerical data into another field.

Microsoft Access Lookup Fields

A lookup field displays one set of values (one or more fields, such as a first and last name), but usually stores a different set of values (one field, such as a numeric ID). For example, a lookup field may store an employee’s ID number (the stored value), but it displays the employee’s name (the displayed value). When you use a lookup field in expressions or in find and replace operations, you use the stored value, not the displayed value.Becoming familiar with the stored and displayed values of a lookup field is the best way to make sure that an expression or a find and replace operation that uses the lookup field works the way that you expect.

Using An Access Database Lookup Field

When using a Lookup field the settings that you see in the Row Source property of the field will vary.

Use a query or a table as the lookup field data source. You can also use a query to retrieve data from another table.

A lookup field can use a query to retrieve data from another table. There is another type of lookup field; the value list, that will use a programmed list of choices.

Using A Microsoft Access Value List

The value list can be used a lookup field data source. As a default value, the value list uses the text data type.

The quickest method to locate lookup and value lists is to display the Lookup tab. Next click on entries in for each field in the table by clicking the Data Type column.

Microsoft Access Relationships

To view a graphical representation of database tables, plus the fields in each table as well as the table relationships, you can use the Relationships Object tab. The Relationships Object tab gives an overall view of the database table and relationship structure, which is important crucial information when creating or editing relationships between tables. The Relationships Object tab can be used to add, edit, or delete relationships.

How To Use Relationships

Open the database that you want to analyze, then find the Database Tools tab; next locate Relationships group and click on Relationships. The Relationships object tab will appear and displays the relationships between all the tables in the current database. As with many Access tools and features, the Relationships object tab is not used for web databases.

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Migrating Microsoft Access Data To SQL Server

Our standard policy is to use "split databases" when we program a Microsoft Access database. That means we use SQL Server for the data storage with Microsoft Access as the User Interface. We can then use all the MS Access tools to add, edit, manipulate, and display SQL Server data.

An Access database has a size limit of 2 GB and can't support more than 255 concurrent users. So when it's time for your Access database to go to the next level, you can migrate to SQL Server. SQL Server (whether on-premises or in the Azure cloud) supports larger amounts of data, more concurrent users, and has greater capacity than the JET/ACE database engine. This guide gives you a smooth start to your SQL Server journey, helps preserve Access front-end solutions you created, and hopefully motivates you to use Access for future database solutions. The Upsizing Wizard was removed from Access in Access 2013, so now you can use the Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA).

About Access Split Databases

All Access database objects can either be in one database file, or they can be stored in two database files: a front-end database and a back-end database. This is called splitting the database and is designed to facilitate sharing in a network environment. The back-end database file must only contain tables and relationships. The front-end file must only contain all other objects, including forms, reports, queries, macros, VBA modules, and linked tables to the back-end database. When you migrate an Access database, it's similar to a split database in that SQL Server is acting as a new back-end for the data that is now located on a server.

As a result, you can still maintain the front-end Access database with linked tables to the SQL Server tables. Effectively, you can derive the benefits of rapid application development that an Access database provides, along with the scalability of SQL Server.

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