Capstone Exercise
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Northwind Traders, an international gourmet food distribu-
summaries of data that took place before she started with the
hired a new CEO. She asked for your assistance in providing
ate queries to perform data analysis. Based on your meeting, you
company. To help her with her strategic planning, you will cre-
creating four queries. One query will find orders with
major delays. Another query will summarize the cost impact
of customer discounts. A third query will be used to help evalu-
ate financing. The final query will calculate the total sales by
plan on
country,
Database File Setup
You will open the Northwind Traders food database, use Save As
to make a copy of the database, and then use the new database
complete this capstone exercise. You will add yourself to the
e. Add criteria to limit the query results to include only
orders that took more than 30 days to ship.
f. Add the Quantity field from the Order Details table and
the ProductName field from the Products table to the
query. Sort the query by ascending OrderID. When the
sales reps contact these customers, these two fields will
provide useful information about the orders.
g. Add the caption Days to Ship to the DaysToShip field.
Switch to Datasheet view to view the results. Adjust
column widths as necessary.
h. Save and close the query.
Order Summary Query
The CEO is considering the financial impact of discounts. She
asked for a query showing the employee name, number of orders
they have taken, and the total discount amount they have given
customers. She hopes to see if there is a correlation between the
discount offered and the number of sales.
to
employee database.
2. Locate and open a03c1 Food and save the database as
a03c1Food_LastFirst.
b. Open the Employees table. Add yourself as an
employee. Fill in all information, with the hire date
as the current date. Set your Title to Technical
Aide, extension to 1144, and the Reports To field to
Buchanan, Steven. Leave the Photo and Notes fields
blank.
c. Close the Employees table.
Shipping Efficiency Query
You will create a query to calculate the number of days between
the date an order was placed and the date the order was shipped
for each order. The result of your work will be a list of orders that
took more than 30 days to ship. The salespeople will be required
to review the records and report the source of the delay for each
order. The CEO feels there may be issues with one of the shipping
companies, and would like data to back that up.
a. Create a query using Query Design and add the Orders,
Order etails, Products, and Customers tables. Add the
fields OrderID and OrderDate from the Orders table. Set
both fields' Total row to Group By.
b. Add a calculated field in the third column. Name the
field ExtendedAmount. This field should multiply
the quantity ordered (from the Order Details table) by
the unit price for that item (from the Products table).
This will calculate the total amount for each order.
Format the calculated field as Currency and change
the caption to Total Dollars. Change the Total row to
Sum.
a. Create a query using Query Design. From the
Customers table, include the fields CompanyName,
ContactName, Contact Title, and Phone. From the
Orders table, include the fields OrderID, OrderDate, and
ShippedDate.
b. Run the query and examine the records. Save the
query as Shipping Efficiency,
c. Add a calculated field named DaysToShip to calculate
the number of days taken to fill each order. (Hint:
The expression will include the OrderDate and the
ShippedDate; the results will not contain negative
c. Add a calculated field in the fourth column. Name the
field DiscountAmount. The field should multiply the
quantity ordered, the unit price for that item, and the
discount field (from the Customers table). This will
calculate the total discount for each order. Format the
calculated field as Currency and add a caption of
Discount Amt. Change the Total row to Sum.
d. Run the query. Examine the results. Most customers
should have a discount of 10% of the total dollars, but
some customers will have no discount. Save the query
as Order Summary. Return to Design view.
e. Add criteria to the OrderDate field so only orders made
between 1/1/2016 and 12/31/2016 are displayed.
Change the Total row to Where. This expression will
display only orders that were placed in 2016.
f. Run the query and view the results. Adjust column
widths as necessary. Save and close the
query.
numbers.)
d. Run the query and examine the results. Does the
data in the DaysToShip field look accurate? Save the
query.
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Order Summary by Country Query
The company is planning on opening up some shipping centers
internationally. The previous CEO had been considering Brazil,
Denmark, and Germany as potential shipping center locations,
Order Financing Query
The CEO would like the salespeople to discuss financing with
customers. In order to do so, she would like you to create a query
showing the impact on price for prior orders. This way, the
reps can give customers a comparison with an order they have
already placed. For the moment, she is considering a 5% interest
rate, paid over 12 months. She would like you to leave the results
as negative numbers.
a. Create a copy of the Order Summary query named
Order Financing
b. Open the Order Financing query in Design view and
remove the DiscountAmount field.
but he was working from older data. You will provide a list of
total shipment value by country for the year before the current
CEO started to best inform her decision making.
a. Create a copy of the Order Summary query named
Order Summary by Country.
b. Open the query in Design view. Replace the
OrderId field with the Country field from the
Customers table.
c. Run the query and examine the summary records;
there should be 21 countries listed.
d. Switch to Design view and change the sort order so
that the country with the highest ExtendedAmount is
first and the country with the lowest Extended Amount
is last.
e. Run the query and verify the results. Note the
ExtendedAmount field has a caption of Total Dollars,
so this is the field the query will be sorted by.
f. Save and close the query.
g. Close the database and exit Access. Based on your
instructor's directions, submit a03c1Food_LastFirst.
c. Add a new field using the Expression Builder named
SamplePayment. Insert the Pmt function with the
following parameters:
• Use .05/12 for the rate argument (5% interest, paid
monthly).
• Use the number 12 for the num_periods argument
(12 months).
Use the calculated field [ExtendedAmount] for the
present_value.
Use the value 0 for both future_value and type.
d. Change the Total row to Expression for the
Sample Payment field.
e. Change the Format for the SamplePayment field to
Currency
f. Run the query and examine the results. Adjust column
widths as necessary. The results appear as negative
numbers, as requested. Save and close the query.
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