Free online courseMicrosoft Access and VBA Programming: Database Design, Forms, Reports, and SQL

Course Description

Learn how to build practical Microsoft Access database solutions from the ground up, combining solid database design with automation using VBA. This free online course guides you through creating tables and choosing the right data types, entering and organizing records, and structuring databases with relationships, including many-to-many scenarios, so your data stays consistent and scalable.

Move from structure to insight by working with queries and SQL to retrieve, filter, summarize, and transform data. You will explore essential techniques such as selecting fields, applying criteria, using totals, building subqueries, and running action queries to create tables, insert new rows, update records, and delete data safely. Along the way, you will gain the confidence to turn raw data into meaningful outputs that support real workflows.

Bring your database to life with user-friendly forms and polished reports. You will learn how to create and refine forms, apply filtering, and design reports with headers, footers, grouping, and calculations to present information clearly and professionally.

Strengthen your development skills with a deep dive into Access VBA, including variables and data types, conditional logic, looping, arrays, procedures, debugging, and error handling. You will also work with advanced topics such as classes, properties, methods, custom events, and recordsets for programmatic control of data. Security-focused lessons cover login concepts, splitting a database, encryption, securing the front end, and password hashing approaches, helping you design solutions with better protection in mind.