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May 9, 2005

I know it is said that you should not store calculated data in tables so I need some input on how to go about a problem I am having.

I am creating a DBase with some aircraft info in it. The DBase will be around for awhile so I plan to implement so sort of archiving later on.

The problem is one piece of info I am tracking is flight hours for the aircraft along with hours on certain components. I have a table with info pertaining to each aircraft by number (1 record per aircraft) one of the fields is total current flying hours. I have another table that has individual flight info including number of hours per flight. I want to add the individual flight hours with the total flight hours to get a new total flight hours. Easy with a query but if I get rid of old flights then how will you add them in the query. The only thing I can think of now is to save the newly summed number in the table which is supposedly taboo. Same with the components if it is on the aircraft during the flight it needs to get the new flight hours on it also .

Sorry if this is trivial but any ideas on how this should be done would be great.

Thanks in advance.
Frank

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