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Old January 25th, 2010, 06:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
Golfinray
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Default Help with normalization

Thanks guys. We have one project, many dates. We normally only do one
inspection, two at the most. We have 8 inspectors so I could have a little
table for them. As to dates, we have dates for steps of the projects and
completion date, inspection date. I question how to handle dates that must be
stored. The dates are tied to "A" project. IE, project number 1011-1100-323
has, say 8 dates. from drawings through completion. I am thinking I have to
have a one-to-many, one project, many dates. But then I also have to deal
with District, school, project description. I am just a little confused on
the dates, do they need a primary and foreign, or what.
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Milton Purdy
ACCESS
State of Arkansas


"Jeff Boyce" wrote:

Milton

When you say "project", I hear "task" ... are you saying that a "Job" can
have many "Projects"?

Wouldn't the start/stop dates HAVE to be related to/tied to specific
"projects"? (e.g., "foundation")

Would your "projects" have one (and only one) "checkoff", or could they have
many? If many, it sounds like you'd need a one-to-may relationship between
"projects" and "project-checkoffs" (and I'm guessing, a one-to-many
relationship between "checkoffs" and "project-checkoffs"!).

More info, please...

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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"golfinray" wrote in message
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I have a table that I need to normalize. It has dates that must be stored,
they are project stop and end points, like foundation started, foundation
completed. What is the best way to store dates? Should they be a separate
table by themselves with just a key? I then have :
Project number
Project School District
Project Building
Project Description
Comments
Some check boxes for N\A
Some check boxes for inspected\inspector
Many thanks!!!!
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Milton Purdy
ACCESS
State of Arkansas



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