Advise on designing my database

Hi,
I have a small business in water refilling station,
can anyone give me a link to show samples of database related to this,
especially in cash register, picking orders, balance sheet, printing
receipt...
so on and so forth..

can anyone also give me ideas on how to start my design for my database?

thanks for any help I appreciate

If you need help building your database, contact me. I provide help with
Access applications for a reasonable fee.

Steve



"Revned" wrote in message
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Hi,
I have a small business in water refilling station,
can anyone give me a link to show samples of database related to this,
especially in cash register, picking orders, balance sheet, printing
receipt...
so on and so forth..

can anyone also give me ideas on how to start my design for my database?

thanks for any help I appreciate

"Steve" help_available_at_very_reasonable_rates@contactme .com wrote in
message m...
If you need help building your database, contact me. I provide help with
Access applications for a reasonable fee.

Steve



These newsgroups are provided by Microsoft for FREE peer to peer support.
There are many highly qualified individuals who gladly help for free. Stevie
is not one of them, but he is the only one who just does not get the idea of
"FREE" support. He offers questionable results at unreasonable prices. If he
was any good, the "thousands" of people he claims to have helped would be
flooding him with work, but there appears to be a continuous drought and he
needs to constantly grovel for work.

A few gems gleaned from the Word New User newsgroup over the Christmas
holidays to show Stevie's "expertise" in Word.


Dec 17, 2008 7:47 pm

Word 2007 ..........
In older versions of Word you could highlght some text then go to Format -
Change Case and change the case of the hoghloghted text. Is this still
available in Word 2007? Where?
Thanks! Steve


Dec 22, 2008 8:22 pm

I am designing a series of paystubs for a client. I start in landscape and
draw a table then add columns and rows to setup labels and their
corresponding value. This all works fine. After a landscape version is
completed, I next need to design a portrait version. Rather than strating
from scratch, I'd like to be able to cut and paste from the landscape
version and design the portrait version.
Steve


Dec 24, 2008, 1:12 PM

How do you protect the document for filling in forms?
Steve


One of my favourites:
Dec 30, 2008 8:07 PM - a reply to stevie
(The original poster asked how to sort a list and stevie offered to create
the OP an Access database)

Steve wrote:
Yes, you are right but a database is the correct tool to use not a
spreadsheet.


Not at all. If it's just a simple list then a spreadsheet is perfectly
adequate...




John... Visio MVP

Steve,

And I ask again... How are you helping to design a database when a simple
Two-Column report eludes your 'expertise'??

--
Gina Whipp

"I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors
II

http://www.regina-whipp.com/index_files/TipList.htm

"Steve" help_available_at_very_reasonable_rates@contactme .com wrote in
message m...
If you need help building your database, contact me. I provide help with
Access applications for a reasonable fee.

Steve



"Revned" wrote in message
news
Hi,
I have a small business in water refilling station,
can anyone give me a link to show samples of database related to this,
especially in cash register, picking orders, balance sheet, printing
receipt...
so on and so forth..

can anyone also give me ideas on how to start my design for my database?

thanks for any help I appreciate

You cannot help. You have never demonstrated to anybody that your skills
rise to the level of being worth actual money. You post the occasional
helpful bit of information, but you miss the mark about as often. Aside
from that, groveling for work is inappropriate in this forum. You have not
grasped this simple fact after all this time, so it seems unlikely you would
be able to handle the subtleties of a particular client's needs.

"Steve" help_available_at_very_reasonable_rates@contactme .com wrote in
message m...
If you need help building your database, contact me. I provide help with
Access applications for a reasonable fee.

Steve



"Revned" wrote in message
news
Hi,
I have a small business in water refilling station,
can anyone give me a link to show samples of database related to this,
especially in cash register, picking orders, balance sheet, printing
receipt...
so on and so forth..

can anyone also give me ideas on how to start my design for my database?

thanks for any help I appreciate

"Steve" wrote in message
m...
If you need help building your database,


then read this first:

http://home.tiscali.nl/arracom/whoissteve.html

Steve is so dim he can't even follow simple NG rules, would you trust him
with your data?

Steve

I guess you decided the Rules of Conduct in this newsgroup don't apply to
you.

Please stop touting your paid services in these free newsgroups.

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP

"Steve" help_available_at_very_reasonable_rates@contactme .com wrote in
message m...
If you need help building your database, contact me. I provide help with
Access applications for a reasonable fee.

Steve



"Revned" wrote in message
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Hi,
I have a small business in water refilling station,
can anyone give me a link to show samples of database related to this,
especially in cash register, picking orders, balance sheet, printing
receipt...
so on and so forth..

can anyone also give me ideas on how to start my design for my database?

thanks for any help I appreciate

Of course "where to start" includes a lot of things including working on
learnign Access and table design etc. Aside from that.....

Get a piece of paper and make a list of the real world "entities" that you
need to record in your database. And for each of those, which attributes
SPECIFIC TO each entity need to get recorded. Make a table for each entity
with fields for each attribute. In each table add an autonumber field, name
it by the entity followed by "ID", and make that a primary key.

Then decide what relationships between those entities that you want to
record. Presumably these will be relationships with "many to one"
possibilities. (hopefully / let's assume not "many-to-many") The create
those relationships. To do that, in the table on the "many" side of the
relationships, add a numeric field (leave it as the default "integer" type,
and don't make it autonumber or PK. This field is called a foreign key,
FK. The in the relationships window create a link between that FK field and
the PK field of the table that you are linking to.

The way I was taught to do modeling was like this... I only mention
it, because if you're new to it, it's very easy to do wrong... and
once you have an Entity-Relationship model built, the rest is pure
mechanics (Access). But if you start building your database *before*
your model is right, you're just wasting time.

Steps:
1. Write down a description of what your database will store
information about. Stick to simple subjectverbdirect object
sentences.

2. Once you have all your sentences, diagram them. Nouns go in
squares or rectangles and verbs go in diamonds. Then ask yourself
"Each [Subject] can [verb] at most [one | many] [Direct Object]."
label that relationship.

3. read the relationship backwards "Each [Direct Object] can [verb]
[one | many] [subjects]." If both are true, it's a many-to-many
relationship.

Come to think of it, you might want to go to the bookstore and read a
little of Database Design for Mere Mortals by Michael Hernandez. Then
you should have a fundamental understanding of good design practices.