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Add data to a table

Add data to a table

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Add data to a table

- [Voiceover] Earlier, when we added our first task, the Task Management Database, we used the interface provided by the database template. We now know that we were actually making use of a form object and that the data is really being stored in a table behind the scenes. I can tell that we're using forms by taking a quick look at the icon up here on the tab and you can see that this icon matches the icons of the different form objects here in the Navigation Pane. In fact, our entire interaction with the database at this point has been entirely through form objects. We haven't seen a single table at all. But since the data is being saved, we know that some tables must exist in the background and in fact, there are four tables in this database: Contacts, Filters, Settings, and Tasks. If we double-click on the Tasks table here in the Navigation Pane, it'll open up in its own tab, and we can see the raw structure of the original data table. Here, I can see the single record that we've…

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