Evaluate Sales Performance in a Microsoft Access Database

Topic at a glance

Suppose you want to review sales figures for your company, Northwind Traders, for September. In particular, you want to see how your sales force is doing and who the top performers are. To retrieve this information, you can create a query, a question about data that is stored in more than one table.

To complete the steps in this topic   you need to have Microsoft Office, Professional Edition or an individual copy of Microsoft Access installed. You also need to use the Table Wizard to create the Employees, Orders, and Order Details tables shown in this topic.