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Document your thought process

Document your thought process

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Document your thought process

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- [Instructor] The only thing worse than opening up an unfamiliar database and realizing that you can't figure out what the creator was thinking when they put it together is opening up a database that you yourself created and not remember why you did it the way you did. I'm a big proponent of keeping a detailed documentation trail inside the database file. Fortunately, Access provides a lot of opportunities for you to leave notes to the next database designer that has to follow in your footsteps. First, let's go ahead and open up a table in design view. I'll just use the guest table. Each field has an optional description area where we can type in a note describing the type of data stored or any specific notes on its formatting. We entered a couple of these earlier in the course. Also, if you right click on the table, or in fact any object here in the navigation pane, you can come down to the properties at the very bottom of the popup menu. This will provide a place where we can type…

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