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Old March 25th, 2010, 01:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
akioki
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Default need good database structure for tracking counter state

Dear,
Can anyone help me to make good database structure?

What i have are some locations where I have some machines. Every machines
have 2 counters (IN and OUT). I need to be able to enter state of that
counters and after that to compare that values with previous entry IN and OUT
counters.

How I see it seams that somewere I need to keep information wich machine is
on wich location. Beside that I need to track information about date and time
of entries.

Situation:

Location 1 - machine1, machine2, machine3
Location 2 - machine4
Location 3 - machine5, machine6, machine7, machine8
.....

I need 3 kind of reports:
â—‹ Deference between new IN / OUT and some old IN/OUT counters for every
machine
â—‹ Total IN/OUT for some location
â—‹ Total IN/OUT for all location

How I need to organize this datas?

Thanks for helping me,
akioki

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Old March 25th, 2010, 03:37 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
XPS350
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Default need good database structure for tracking counter state

On 25 mrt, 13:24, akioki wrote:
Dear,
Can anyone help me to make good database structure?

What i have are some locations where I have some machines. Every machines
have 2 counters (IN and OUT). I need to be able to enter state of that
counters and after that to compare that values with previous entry IN and OUT
counters.

How I see it seams that somewere I need to keep information wich machine is
on wich location. Beside that I need to track information about date and time
of entries.

Situation:

Location 1 - machine1, machine2, machine3
Location 2 - machine4
Location 3 - machine5, machine6, machine7, machine8
....

I need 3 kind of reports:
Â* Â* Â* Â* â—‹ Deference between new IN / OUT and Â*some old IN/OUT counters for every
machine
Â* Â* Â* Â* â—‹ Total IN/OUT for some location
Â* Â* Â* Â* â—‹ Total IN/OUT for all location

How I need to organize this datas?

Thanks for helping me,
akioki


It seems to me you need thre tables.

Location
- LocationID
- LocationName
..
..
..

Machine
- MachineID
- LocationID
..
..
..

MachineCounter
- MachineID
- Date (date/time?)
- IN
- OUT

Groeten,

Peter
http://access.xps350.com
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Old May 3rd, 2010, 10:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
tighe
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Default need good database structure for tracking counter state

Peter,

hope i explain this well. i have a similar setup but for the
"MachineCounter" table i have a finacial period. this period is essentially
a month, but items can come be in/out in the period before or after but it
still needs to be tracked in that period, so today i, may 5, i might recieve
something for the period of April. how do i do this? also i am truly
tracking three types of in/out, would it be better to have each item to track
be a seperate table and when it is tracked the system auto adds the Period
for each record in the seperate table(s)?

"XPS350" wrote:

On 25 mrt, 13:24, akioki wrote:
Dear,
Can anyone help me to make good database structure?

What i have are some locations where I have some machines. Every machines
have 2 counters (IN and OUT). I need to be able to enter state of that
counters and after that to compare that values with previous entry IN and OUT
counters.

How I see it seams that somewere I need to keep information wich machine is
on wich location. Beside that I need to track information about date and time
of entries.

Situation:

Location 1 - machine1, machine2, machine3
Location 2 - machine4
Location 3 - machine5, machine6, machine7, machine8
....

I need 3 kind of reports:
â—‹ Deference between new IN / OUT and some old IN/OUT counters for every
machine
â—‹ Total IN/OUT for some location
â—‹ Total IN/OUT for all location

How I need to organize this datas?

Thanks for helping me,
akioki


It seems to me you need thre tables.

Location
- LocationID
- LocationName
..
..
..

Machine
- MachineID
- LocationID
..
..
..

MachineCounter
- MachineID
- Date (date/time?)
- IN
- OUT

Groeten,

Peter
http://access.xps350.com
.

 




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