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First time I have inherited a db with no documentation and which I am having
trouble figuring it out. Which or how is the best way to figure someone else's db??? Thank you. |
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Is it documented (or obvious) what the table, link and field definition are?
This will determine whether or not it actually contains truly databased data. Is this DB successfully in use? I f the answer to both of the above questions is "no", you have to consider the possibility that you inherited a piece of junk rather than a viable database. That said: I'd first peruse the "relationships" view and the tables. Try to figure out (and write down) - Define the entities that each table/record represents? - Define what goes into each field - Define what type of relationship any linkages records. After that, start figurign out what is shown in (and the data source[s] for) each form and report, Well, there a few ideas to start. |
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To what end? Why do you need to? How may depend on what you want to do
with it? What level of experience do you have with "normalization" and "relational database design"? What level of experience do you have with MS Access? ... with graphical user interface design? How you interpret what you find will depend on what you are familiar with... More info, please... -- Regards Jeff Boyce Microsoft Access MVP Disclaimer: This author may have received products and services mentioned in this post. Mention and/or description of a product or service herein does not constitute endorsement thereof. Any code or pseudocode included in this post is offered "as is", with no guarantee as to suitability. You can thank the FTC of the USA for making this disclaimer possible/necessary. "TotallyConfused" wrote in message ... First time I have inherited a db with no documentation and which I am having trouble figuring it out. Which or how is the best way to figure someone else's db??? Thank you. |
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I have done what you are asking numerous times for customers. I provide
fee-based help with Access, Excel and Word applications. My fee to help you would be very modest. I would provide you a map of the tables that shows all the tables in your database and for each table would show all the name of the table and a list of all the fields in each table. Primary and foreign keys would be shown and all relationships would be shown. For each relationship, the type of relationship would be shown. The map would generally show the flow of information in the database. Finally, a narrative describing and analyzing the database would be provided. If you are interested in having me help you with your database, contact me. Steve "TotallyConfused" wrote in message ... First time I have inherited a db with no documentation and which I am having trouble figuring it out. Which or how is the best way to figure someone else's db??? Thank you. |
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DB guide - STEVIE PIMPS AGAIN!
"Steve" wrote in message
... I have done what you are asking numerous times for customers. I provide fee-based help with Access, Excel and Word applications. My fee to help you would be very modest. If you are interested in having me help you with your database, contact me. 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 past Christmas period and a few gems from the Access newsgroups to show Stevie's "expertise". 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... Sept 10, 2009 (In respose to a perfectly adequate GENERIC solution stevie wrote) This function is specific to the example but not generic for any amount paid out. Steve Sept 9, 2009 "Steve" wrote in message you can then return all the characters in front of it with the Left() fumction. Would look like: Left("YourString",Instr("YourString","VbCr" Or "VbLf") - 1) Steve No, it would not look like Left("YourString",Instr("YourString","VbCr" Or "VbLf") - 1) First of all, the constants are vbCr and vbLf: no quotes around them. With the quotes, you're looking for the literal strings. Second, you can't Or together character constants like that. Even if you could, Or'ing them together in the InStr function like that makes no sense at all. Sept 22,2009 Sorry Steve, even I can see that this is a useless answer. I made it pretty clear that "CW259" is just ONE possible value for the control. "Steve" wrote: Hello David, Open your report in design view and select txtOrderID. Open properties and go to the Data tab. Put the following expression in the Control Source property: =IIF([chkActive],"CW259","(CW259)") Steve John... Visio MVP |
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I will advise the OP against any consideration of hiring you. As you should
understand by now, this newsgroup is for free peer-to-peer support. It is not your personal advertising forum. That you have not yet grasped this basic fact does not speak well of your potential ability to handle a more complex situation such as would arise in Access. On top of that, the OP already has a database. Presumably it has tables, and maybe even relationships, so your offer to provide a list of tables and fields is redundant at best, but more likely indicates you either did not read or did not understand the question. Either way, it should serve notice that the OP should head in almost any other direction than the one you propose. Steve wrote: I have done what you are asking numerous times for customers. I provide fee-based help with Access, Excel and Word applications. My fee to help you would be very modest. I would provide you a map of the tables that shows all the tables in your database and for each table would show all the name of the table and a list of all the fields in each table. Primary and foreign keys would be shown and all relationships would be shown. For each relationship, the type of relationship would be shown. The map would generally show the flow of information in the database. Finally, a narrative describing and analyzing the database would be provided. If you are interested in having me help you with your database, contact me. Steve First time I have inherited a db with no documentation and which I am having trouble figuring it out. Which or how is the best way to figure someone else's db??? Thank you. -- Message posted via AccessMonster.com http://www.accessmonster.com/Uwe/For...esign/200912/1 |
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"Steve" schreef in bericht ... I have done what you are asking numerous times for customers. I provide fee-based help with Access, Excel and Word applications. My fee to help you would be very modest. I would provide you a map of the tables that shows all the tables in your database and for each table would show all the name of the table and a list of all the fields in each table. Primary and foreign keys would be shown and all relationships would be shown. For each relationship, the type of relationship would be shown. The map would generally show the flow of information in the database. Finally, a narrative describing and analyzing the database would be provided. If you are interested in having me help you with your database, contact me. The OP was not asking for fee-based help... -- Get lost $teve. Go away... far away.... Again... Get lost $teve. Go away... far away.... No-one wants you here... no-one needs you here... This newsgroup is meant for FREE help.. No-one wants you here... no-one needs you here... OP look at http://home.tiscali.nl/arracom/whoissteve.html (Website has been updated and has a new 'look'... we have passed 10.500 pageloads... it's a shame !!) Arno R |
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"Steve" wrote in message
... I have done what you are asking numerous times for customers. Couldn't you get it right the first time? Doesn't surprise me. The word here is "free", NOT "fee". Look it up in your "library of reference books". |
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"Steve" wrote:
I have done what you are asking numerous times for customers. I provide fee-based help with Access, Excel and Word applications. My fee to help you would be very modest. I would provide you a map of the tables that shows all the tables in your database and for each table would show all the name of the table and a list of all the fields in each table. Primary and foreign keys would be shown and all relationships would be shown. For each relationship, the type of relationship would be shown. The map would generally show the flow of information in the database. Said tools can be found for free. Finally, a narrative describing and analyzing the database would be provided. If you are interested in having me help you with your database, contact me. Looking for more work yet again. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/ |
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