Reviewing how FileMaker works

We have talked about why you would want to use a relational database to manage your database…over the other flat file options, but I'd like to show you a couple of reasons why FileMaker…Pro is such a great application for developing those relational databases.…First off, you can see here onscreen that we can store information or application much like we do with the spreadsheet…or other applications. I've got information here on Customers, but I can also store information…on Products or Invoices or whatever other information fits our needs. But in addition,…we can easily create new records, as you see here, by just simply hitting this New Record…button on the top of the screen, or delete records very easily from our database.…

We can even search for records by going into a certain Find mode and entering in some type…of search criteria--in this case, the State of California--and within about a second,…FileMaker is going to show me all the different records that match that criteria that are…stored inside my database. This is something that's usually very challenging to do inside…