[Year 12 IT Apps] Excellent Normalisation example

[Ciotti, George W]

Thanks Jarrod. Regarding screencasts, the videos accompanying this article are as good as it gets. I showed the videos to the class so that we could focus on the very well explained process – and of course stop whenever I wanted to add or reinforce associated concepts. The best thing about the article/videos is that they cover a variety of processes and concepts and demonstrate the relationships between them very clearly.

BTW Joyce Tabone's recent post with her 2011 SAC is a perfect follow up SAC for this year in 302 if you take the students through this. Her data set is perfect for what is in most circumstances a difficult SAC - given that most of my students have no prior knowledge of Access or database concepts to begin with.
I am going to use it with a few modifications, thanks Joyce.

Cheers
George

The University High School
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From: "Robinson, Jarrod J" <robinson.jarrod.j at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:robinson.jarrod.j at edumail.vic.gov.au>>
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Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 13:01:33 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Excellent Normalisation example

Brilliant stuff. Thanks for sharing

I would also love to see some screencasts made by some of the experienced teachers moving through normalisation

Could record the process with www.screencast-o-matic.com<http://www.screencast-o-matic.com>

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On 03/05/2012, at 9:18 PM, "Ciotti, George W" <ciotti.george.w at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:ciotti.george.w at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:


Hi,



after spending some time looking for a simple and relative Normalisation example for my ITA class I found this one. It's very good and it starts off in Excel and then ports the finished tables into Access in a way I never knew you could. It's a great starting point and my kids are actually beginning to understand how it all fits together.



http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/move-data-from-excel-to-access-HA010342703.aspx?CTT=1#_Toc297903648



I have attached the excel spreadsheet (Microsoft Example_norm_to_Access.xlsx) that I copied from the site plus the developed excel and associated access files - (MS_Access_ex1.zip).



Firstly, I got the students to follow the procedure outlined in the article, and you really only need to view the 4 associated videos, and once they finish this I will get them to do it again using another 0NF spreadsheet. The one I am using is from the VITTA PD at the start of the year.(Normalisation_Nat.zip).



The process provides a great foundation for discussion regarding primary and foreign keys as well as whether and how to set up a database using imported IDs or setting up autonumbered IDs.



Hope this is useful.



cheers

George



Uuniversity High School

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