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best way to archive records?
I am creating a membership database for a church. Individual
information is in three basic tables: tblFamily FamLastName (for entire family) Address tblIndividual FirstName MiddleName LastName (takes care of hyphenated married names, or different names for children, etc.) BirthDate MarriageDate tblMembership JoinDate JoinManner TerminationDate TerminationManner and more... Once a person leaves the membership of the church I need to "archive" the information. It needs to be kept for our permanent records. What is the best way to do this? My two thoughts would be: 1) set up duplicate tables and move the "archive" information to it or 2) Create an active/not active field in the tblIndividual and keep all the information, both active and archived in the original set of tables. Is one way or the other better or more efficient? Is there some other way that I haven't thought of that would work better? Thank you for your help and input! Kathy R. |
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