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Table creation question
I have a database that I use to track boxes. Each record is a single box as
each record could contain multiple bits of information that pretain to just that box. My question is; each record has a memo field for notes. These notes are entered in during the coarse of the life of this box which mean that I can have as little as a single note or as many as fifty notes per box. What would be the best way to maintain this information as I need to time/date stamp each new note entry? Thank you for your help |
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Table creation question
I would create a separate table for notes and use the other table's primary
key as the foreign key within the notes table and then use a subform to enter as many notes as needed. -- Bob Larson Free MS Access Tutorials and Samples at http://www.btabdevelopment.com __________________________________ "Timothy Millar" wrote: I have a database that I use to track boxes. Each record is a single box as each record could contain multiple bits of information that pretain to just that box. My question is; each record has a memo field for notes. These notes are entered in during the coarse of the life of this box which mean that I can have as little as a single note or as many as fifty notes per box. What would be the best way to maintain this information as I need to time/date stamp each new note entry? Thank you for your help |
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What do you mean by:
"....each record could contain multiple bits of information....."? If you are recording something like the contents of the box, then you shouldn't be recprding this data in notes. Rather you should have a separate table. Your tables would look like: TblBox BoxID Descriptive fields about the box TblBoxContent BoxContentID BoxID Descriptive field about the item in the box Steve "Timothy Millar" wrote in message ... I have a database that I use to track boxes. Each record is a single box as each record could contain multiple bits of information that pretain to just that box. My question is; each record has a memo field for notes. These notes are entered in during the coarse of the life of this box which mean that I can have as little as a single note or as many as fifty notes per box. What would be the best way to maintain this information as I need to time/date stamp each new note entry? Thank you for your help |
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