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Using database functions including DSUM, DAVERAGE, DMAX

Using database functions including DSUM, DAVERAGE, DMAX

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Using database functions including DSUM, DAVERAGE, DMAX

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- [Voiceover] Excel has a category of functions called Database functions. We're looking at a worksheet called DB functions. Now what if you heard that phrase, database function, said I wonder what these are all about. I'm gonna go to the Forumlas tab here, and see if we can track down these functions. Well, we've got financial, logical, text, I don't see database here, but we do have this category out here, called More Functions. Let's click this. And what do we see, we're not seeing database. That's a bit strange. Now, if we click on an empty cell somewhere, and then, just to the left of the Formula bar, click the fx button, under Select a Category, drop arrow, there's that category called database. And we see a bunch of functions here, notice how they all begin with the letter D and many of them are followed by functions that you probably recognize, like average and max and min and so on. Let's cancel here and use…

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