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Old May 12th, 2009, 04:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
Jeff Boyce
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Default Relating Multiple tables with one-to-many & many-to-many relations

Hal

Why? As in "why do you believe you need that many tables?" In a relational
database like Access, you need one table per "entity". What entities
(things about which you wish to keep data) do you have?

One phrase in particular caused me to ask ... "... and individual tables for
each utility account ... hold monthly transaction data." If I'm not
misinterpreting, this would mean that every single account gets its own
transaction table. That would be a SPREADSHEET, not a relational database
table.

More info, please...

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP

"Hal" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to construct a database the relates a building info table with
a
utility accounts table, utility provider table, utility type table, and
individual tables for each utility account the will hold monthly
transaction
data. I've successfully related the building table and the utility account
table together, and have related the supplier table and utility type table
as
well. I have not been able to properly connect the individual utility
account
tables to either the "building" table or the "accounts" table.

I get a "too many indexes" error message.
Any help on this issue. Please
--
Thanks, Hal