{"id":336,"date":"2022-12-01T20:32:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T20:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-compappmgr\/chapter\/why-it-matters-microsoft-access-intermediate-skills\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T20:32:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T20:32:35","slug":"why-it-matters-microsoft-access-intermediate-skills","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-compappmgr\/chapter\/why-it-matters-microsoft-access-intermediate-skills\/","title":{"raw":"Why It Matters: Microsoft Access Intermediate Skills","rendered":"Why It Matters: Microsoft Access Intermediate Skills"},"content":{"raw":"\n<h2>Why learn intermediate Microsoft Access skills?<\/h2>\nIn this section, we discuss additional database principles of both MS Access and relational database technology in general. 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