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Making a Database for 14,000 providers in Access 97 need resources
Can you guys point me towards some good resources to help me make a database.
I want it to be able to search by provider # and name. Each person will have name, provider #, ss # and a big comments field. I don't want anything fancy right now just something that works and is simple. If you have any suggestions or things that I should look into doing; I would love to get some ideas. Especially any promblems to watch out for in Access 97 and books to read. |
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Making a Database for 14,000 providers in Access 97 need resources
How is it that you've settled on a relational database (Access) as the right
tool for this job? Are you aware that you have 3 or 4 learning curves to surmount before you can pull this off? You need to understand normalization to use a tool that is optimized for normalized data (i.e., Access). You need to understand how Access does things (hint: not the same way Excel does). You need to understand how to "hide" the stuff Access does, since you won't want to force your users to learn Access too. You need experience building applications ... you wouldn't start out building a house without learning how to, right? Good luck! 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 psuedocode 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. "Taking On A Big Job" Taking On A Big wrote in message ... Can you guys point me towards some good resources to help me make a database. I want it to be able to search by provider # and name. Each person will have name, provider #, ss # and a big comments field. I don't want anything fancy right now just something that works and is simple. If you have any suggestions or things that I should look into doing; I would love to get some ideas. Especially any promblems to watch out for in Access 97 and books to read. |
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Making a Database for 14,000 providers in Access 97 need resou
This info is coming from a access database and we can only have the data
because the county owns the database. Your input is not so helpful but thanks. How did you get to where you are? You learned it and so will I. I can do anything I put my mind to and I will. "Jeff Boyce" wrote: How is it that you've settled on a relational database (Access) as the right tool for this job? Are you aware that you have 3 or 4 learning curves to surmount before you can pull this off? You need to understand normalization to use a tool that is optimized for normalized data (i.e., Access). You need to understand how Access does things (hint: not the same way Excel does). You need to understand how to "hide" the stuff Access does, since you won't want to force your users to learn Access too. You need experience building applications ... you wouldn't start out building a house without learning how to, right? Good luck! 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 psuedocode 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. "Taking On A Big Job" Taking On A Big wrote in message ... Can you guys point me towards some good resources to help me make a database. I want it to be able to search by provider # and name. Each person will have name, provider #, ss # and a big comments field. I don't want anything fancy right now just something that works and is simple. If you have any suggestions or things that I should look into doing; I would love to get some ideas. Especially any promblems to watch out for in Access 97 and books to read. . |
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Making a Database for 14,000 providers in Access 97 need resou
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:16:01 -0700, Taking On A Big Job
wrote: This info is coming from a access database and we can only have the data because the county owns the database. Your input is not so helpful but thanks. How did you get to where you are? You learned it and so will I. I can do anything I put my mind to and I will. Well... if you already HAVE the database you can use it... link to it from another Access database perhaps. You can use File... Get External Data... Link to connect your local database to the county database, so long as both databases are on the same fast, stable network (this will NOT work over the internet or over a Wide Area Network). Perhaps you could explain the business purpose of the database, how the county database comes into it, and the work environment (i.e. are you in the same office as the county's database, or at a remote site)? Do you need real-time connection, or would daily or weekly updates suffice (and would they be available from the county)? Do you need just read-only data, or do you need to record or update information? -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
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Making a Database for 14,000 providers in Access 97 need resou
?!It isn't helpful to know what you're facing?! OK, if you'd rather just
jump in ... I haven't "learned" it ... that's a past tense and I'm still learning it. In my case, largely self-taught, and 15+ years of finding approaches that don't work...g. Best of luck! -- 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 psuedocode 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. "Taking On A Big Job" wrote in message ... This info is coming from a access database and we can only have the data because the county owns the database. Your input is not so helpful but thanks. How did you get to where you are? You learned it and so will I. I can do anything I put my mind to and I will. "Jeff Boyce" wrote: How is it that you've settled on a relational database (Access) as the right tool for this job? Are you aware that you have 3 or 4 learning curves to surmount before you can pull this off? You need to understand normalization to use a tool that is optimized for normalized data (i.e., Access). You need to understand how Access does things (hint: not the same way Excel does). You need to understand how to "hide" the stuff Access does, since you won't want to force your users to learn Access too. You need experience building applications ... you wouldn't start out building a house without learning how to, right? Good luck! 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 psuedocode 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. "Taking On A Big Job" Taking On A Big wrote in message ... Can you guys point me towards some good resources to help me make a database. I want it to be able to search by provider # and name. Each person will have name, provider #, ss # and a big comments field. I don't want anything fancy right now just something that works and is simple. If you have any suggestions or things that I should look into doing; I would love to get some ideas. Especially any promblems to watch out for in Access 97 and books to read. . |
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Making a Database for 14,000 providers in Access 97 need resou
Your subject line mentions Access 97. This may further complicate matters,
as suggestions that would work for later versions of Access may not apply to Access 97. As you pursue this and ask further questions be sure to mention every time that you are using Access 97. The links John Vinson provided are well worth checking out. IMHO Crystal's tutorial is as good a place as any to start, but the other links have lots of useful stuff too. I expect you have figured out by now that Steve's "offer" is not worth checking out. Taking On A Big Job wrote: This info is coming from a access database and we can only have the data because the county owns the database. Your input is not so helpful but thanks. How did you get to where you are? You learned it and so will I. I can do anything I put my mind to and I will. How is it that you've settled on a relational database (Access) as the right tool for this job? [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] . -- Message posted via AccessMonster.com http://www.accessmonster.com/Uwe/For...esign/200910/1 |
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Making a Database for 14,000 providers in Access 97 need resources
.... P.S. Is there a reason you aren't just doing this in Excel, using
filters? 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 psuedocode 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. "Taking On A Big Job" Taking On A Big wrote in message ... Can you guys point me towards some good resources to help me make a database. I want it to be able to search by provider # and name. Each person will have name, provider #, ss # and a big comments field. I don't want anything fancy right now just something that works and is simple. If you have any suggestions or things that I should look into doing; I would love to get some ideas. Especially any promblems to watch out for in Access 97 and books to read. |
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Making a Database for 14,000 providers in Access 97 need resources
Hello Tahing On .....,
I will cretae the database for you for a nominal fee. I provide help with Access, Excel and Word applications. Contact me for a quote of my fee. Steve "Taking On A Big Job" Taking On A Big wrote in message ... Can you guys point me towards some good resources to help me make a database. I want it to be able to search by provider # and name. Each person will have name, provider #, ss # and a big comments field. I don't want anything fancy right now just something that works and is simple. If you have any suggestions or things that I should look into doing; I would love to get some ideas. Especially any promblems to watch out for in Access 97 and books to read. |
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Making a Database for 14,000 provide - stevie loves to pimp his services
"Steve" wrote in message
m... Hello Tahing On ....., I will cretae the database for you for a nominal fee. I provide help with Access, Excel and Word applications. Contact me for a quote of my fee. Steve How do "cretae" a database? 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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