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Next Tip  Data Mining Using Microsoft Access

Microsoft Access provides a good foundation for the database technique called data mining. Its strengths are it interfaces to most database formats and industrial strength SQL queries can feed the very flexible Microsoft Graph for data visualization.

Graf-FX has been configured in a front end software database rather than as an Access Add-In. To use your data, you will first need to link/attach to your database and then import any queries that are relevant for data mining. It is better to have a separate software database as data mining will produce a lot of additional query and form objects that would clutter up an existing access application.

Graf-FX is fully functional shareware and you will find it valuable to work through the introductory examples in the Graf-FX help file before experimenting with the Northwind database.

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Published  1998-07

 

Figure2  Graf-FX launchpad form undertaking drilldowns on the INVOICES query

Figure 3 Drilldown query shown as a Microsoft graph object

Figure 5A Crosstab/3D drilldown shown as a 3D graph .

Figure 6 How you can drilldown on the Invoices query in 3D

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