1. Chapter 1 Query Construction

   1. Finding Unmatched Records

   2. Making AND and OR Do What You Expect

   3. Working with Criteria Using the IN Operator

   4. Excluding Records with the NOT Operator

   5. Parameterizing a Query

   6. Returning a Top or Bottom Number of Records

   7. Returning Distinct Records

   8. Returning Random Records

   9. Fine-Tuning Data Filtering with Subqueries

   10. Combining Data with Union Queries

   11. Inserting On-the-Fly Fields in Select Queries

   12. Using Aliases to Simplify Your SQL Statements

   13. Creating a Left Join

   14. Creating a Right Join

   15. Creating an Outer Join

2. Chapter 2 Calculating with Queries

   1. Finding the Sum or Average in a Set of Data

   2. Finding the Number of Items per Group

   3. Using Expressions in Queries

   4. Using Custom Functions in Queries

   5. Using Regular Expressions in Queries

   6. Using a Cartesian Product to Return All Combinations of Data

   7. Creating a Crosstab Query to View Complex Information

3. Chapter 3 Action Queries

   1. Running an Update Query

   2. Appending Data

   3. Deleting Data

   4. Creating Tables with Make-Table Queries

4. Chapter 4 Managing Tables, Fields, Indexes, and Queries

   1. Creating Tables Programmatically

   2. Altering the Structure of a Table

   3. Creating and Using an Index

   4. Programmatically Removing a Table

   5. Programmatically Creating a Query

5. Chapter 5 Working with String Data

   1. Returning Characters from the Left or Right Side of a String

   2. Returning Characters from the Middle of a String When the Start Position and Length Are Known

   3. Returning the Start Position of a Substring When the Characters Are Known

   4. Stripping Spaces from the Ends of a String

   5. Stripping Spaces from the Middle of a String

   6. Replacing One String with Another String

   7. Concatenating Data

   8. Sorting Numbers That Are Stored as Text

   9. Categorizing Characters with ASCII Codes

6. Chapter 6 Using Programming to Manipulate Data

   1. Using Excel Functions from Access

   2. Working with In-Memory Data

   3. Working with Multidimensional Arrays

   4. Sorting an Array

   5. Flattening Data

   6. Expanding Data

   7. Encrypting Data

   8. Applying Proximate Matching

   9. Using Transaction Processing

   10. Reading from and Writing to the Windows Registry

   11. Creating Charts

   12. Scraping Web HTML

   13. Creating Custom Report Formatting

   14. Rounding Values

   15. Running Word Mail Merges

   16. Building a Multifaceted Query Selection Screen

7. Chapter 7 Importing and Exporting Data

   1. Creating an Import/Export Specification

   2. Automating Imports and Exports

   3. Exporting Data with the FileSystemObject

   4. Importing Data with the FileSystemObject

   5. Importing and Exporting Using XML

   6. Generating XML Schemas

   7. Using XSLT on Import or Export

   8. Working with XML via the MSXML Parser

   9. Reading and Writing XML Attributes

   10. Creating an RSS Feed

   11. Passing Parameters to SQL Server

   12. Handling Returned Values from SQL Server Stored Procedures

   13. Working with SQL Server Data Types

   14. Handling Embedded Quotation Marks

   15. Importing Appointments from the Outlook Calendar

   16. Importing Emails from Outlook

   17. Working with Outlook Contacts

   18. Importing Data from Excel

   19. Exporting Data to Excel

   20. Talking to PowerPoint

   21. Selecting Random Data

8. Chapter 8 Date and Time Calculations

   1. Counting Elapsed Time

   2. Counting Elapsed Time with Exceptions

   3. Working with Time Zones

   4. Working Around Leap Years

   5. Isolating the Day, Month, or Year

   6. Isolating the Hour, Minute, or Second

   7. Adding Time

9. Chapter 9 Business and Finance Problems

   1. Calculating Weighted Averages

   2. Calculating a Moving Average

   3. Calculating Payback Period

   4. Calculating Return on Investment

   5. Calculating Straight-Line Depreciation

   6. Creating a Loan Payment Schedule

   7. Using PivotTables and PivotCharts

   8. Creating PivotTables

   9. Charting Data

   10. Finding Trends

   11. Finding Head and Shoulders Patterns

   12. Working with Bollinger Bands

   13. Calculating Distance Between Zip Codes

10. Chapter 10 Statistics

    1. Creating a Histogram

    2. Finding and Comparing the Mean, Mode, and Median

    3. Calculating the Variance in a Set of Data

    4. Finding the Covariance of Two Data Sets

    5. Finding the Correlation of Two Sets of Data

    6. Returning All Permutations in a Set of Data

    7. Returning All Combinations in a Set of Data

    8. Calculating the Frequency of a Value in a Set of Data

    9. Generating Growth Rates

    10. Determining the Probability Mass Function for a Set of Data

    11. Computing the Kurtosis to Understand the Peakedness or Flatness of a Probability Mass Distribution

    12. Determining the Skew of a Set of Data

    13. Returning a Range of Data by Percentile

    14. Determining the Rank of a Data Item

    15. Determining the Slope and the Intercept of a Linear Regression

    16. Measuring Volatility

1. Colophon

The animal on the cover of Access Data Analysis Cookbook is a crab-eating mongoose (Herpestes urva), an endangered, essentially nocturnal mammal that is also an expert swimmer.

Comparable in size to the stripe-necked mongoose, the four-foot crab-eating mongoose is grayish-brown in color, with a white, contoured stripe running from a corner of its mouth to its shoulder. It has a long, tapered head with a protruding snout, a somewhat rotund body, short, lean legs, and five claws on each paw. An elongated tail normally accounts for two-thirds of its body length.

More aquatic by nature than others of its species, the crab-eating mongoose not only hunts freshwater crabs, it also preys on reptiles, fish, snails, rodents, frogs, insects, birds, and whatever else it can snatch from underneath stones and pull from rock crevices along stream banks and other damp parcels of land.

Though native to Southeast Asia, sightings of the creature in the wild have been relatively rare-in India, the last sighting occurred more than 75 years ago; in Hong Kong, one sighting occurred more than 50 years ago, but, by luck, a healthy population was apparently discovered in 1988. Other countries that have reported sightings of the crab-eating mongoose include Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, China, Laos, and Malaysia.

The cover image is from Lydekker's Royal History. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed.