Laurie Ulrich helps you get started building your database by storyboarding your tables and the fields within them.
- [Instructor] There's no substitute for planning, no matter what you're doing. An Access database is certainly no exception. Storyboarding your database-to-be entails brainstorming about the data you want to store and use, and making lists of what you know about the data in question. Think of every little thing you know about your customers, products, et cetera, or in my case, my students, the enrollments, and classes. Write every item down. Don't worry yet about what you'll call things, just write it down.
You can also type them into a document, which will make reorganizing them later much easier. Think, too, about how you'd break that information down into separate tables. For a training program, you might have a table of classes offered, another for the instructors who teach the classes, and another for the students who take them. As you decide which tables you'd need to build to organize all the pieces of information your brainstorming produced, reorganize the information into those tables.
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2/27/2019- Planning your database
- Building tables
- Setting field properties
- Creating relationships
- Creating forms for data entry
- Finding data with queries
- Updating records with queries
- Building better reports
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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1. Planning
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Storyboarding1m 6s
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2. Building a Table
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3. Field Properties
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Using input masks1m 19s
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4. Relationships
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Editing relationships1m 4s
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5. Data Entry
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Fast forms with subforms1m 12s
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Create combo and list boxes1m 27s
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Adjusting tab order in forms1m 15s
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6. Queries
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Finding missing data1m 7s
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7. Reports
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