Recently I moved the back end of some databases I develop and maintain to a SQL Server for speed and stability purposes.
Whilst this forum has been great for digging out answers to various Access problems I encounter, I persume there are some similar forums dealing with SQL.
Has anyone got some recommendations ?????
Thanks
Richard
Hello Everyone,
I was given this project and I'm not sure how to start it. I have a table (Employees) that need to receive salary increases based on their level. Their level is calculated based on their time with the company, but some are base on hours worked and some based on days worked. For example my table looks like this;
Name PSG Hire date
Peter 037-30-1 06/01/2005
John 051-21-1 09/15/20005
There are different rules for the PSG, as I said earlier some calculate their level in days and some on hours worked. Example
PSG Level Rule
037-30-1 01 1st 1000 worked hrs
02 2nd 1000 worked hrs
03 3rd 1000 worked hrs
021-21-1 01 0 - 80 worked Days
02 81 - 160 worked Days
03 161 - 240 worked Days
I need to create a table or report that will populate the correct LEVEL to the employee depending on what their PSG is. Any ideas?
Please help!
thanks,
Pablo:confused:
First of all, I had some experience many years ago with setting up a db. Nothing since, so if I am in the wrong place, please feel free to say so.
I am in charge of a very large list of people, mostly dead, for a historical society in my town, and much of the data is on paper or in Excel files. In order to get a handle on how to organize it in a db, I have been entering data from paper to Excel for some time. Gradually, I have been able to combine different things, and sort out data to fit in different tables. A person has personal info LastName, First etc, birth/death data, cemetary records, historical artifacts catalog numbers, military records (I know the height & hair/eye color of civil war vets!) of battles fought, medals awarded, ranks, etc, etc. It is obvious to me that a db would be a much better place to keep this data than in Excel, but that would require a db to be designed. I understand enough about dbs to start the process, but I still have a bit more parsing to do. (You wouldn't believe how many different kinds of information can be shoved into the Remarks field!) I have spoken with some people who work with dbs for corporations, FoxPro etc. and they agree that a db would be better.
The problem that they see (all claim to know little or nothing about Access) is something to do with the Primary Key. Let me give you an example:
John Doe is a person who at present is assigned a personal ID. That ID goes everywhere with him because he is not the only John Doe. In fact I have 7 John Does, not all born in the same century, not necessarily related, hopefully with different birthdates, usually in a different grave, but sometimes the grave is unknown as with many veterans who died in prison, etc. and sometimes there is only an approximate birthdate or something like that, if I'm lucky. Also sometimes gravestones list children's names and it is unknown if the child is buried there or with their spouse. In the case of one woman, there are 4 listings as she was a daughter and married three times with a name on the stone of each husband. Of course, one can assume that she was not buried with the husbands who died earlier than the last one, BUT that is not always true, because sometimes women remarried other men for convenience but asked to be buried with their true love. See, it gets complicated sometimes and this was the reason I assigned each a PERSONAL ID. I had to find a way to reference each one to make sure that they were with the right persons.
For geneological purposes, it is important to have as many relationships as possible connected to each individual. One John Doe might have 4 children by two wives. Each wife has a husband and his ID as well as the children and their IDs listed, under the husband and son and daughter fields which include the husband, son, and daughter ID fields. My DB professionals say that that is a real problem. How do I set up a db so that I keep the correct husband with the correct wife without their respective IDs?
These IDs are a convenience to me as I enter data. They could be dispensed with once they have a Primary Key, AND are related to those other people. The trouble is, I haven't the foggiest idea of how I am going to get that accomplished when I transfer the data from Excel to Access.
And so I turn to you good people for some suggestions, even if it is to go to a different URL and bother them. Thanks in advance.
I am new to both Access and VBA. Can anyone provide any recommendations as far as good books on both Access and VBA, or either one seperately? Thanks for any help you can provide!
View 9 Replies View RelatedHi Everyone,
I was wondering if anyone can recommend a good book for learning more about Access?
I have basic experience with the programme, but am hoping to tackle the old 'questionnaire/survey' issue. A lot of books I can find on amazon seem to be set at such a level that I can already do (multiple tables, simple queries and reports), I need something a little more in depth. Others don't seem to tackle the specific issues I'm going to face (although I could be wrong about that!). Also, as I usually don't bother with computer manuals (I generally pick up and play with new programmes) I don't know which ones are best (e.g. Microsoft own, 'Dummies' etc)?
EDIT: I'm using Access 2002.
Thanks a lot!
Bek
Hi,
I have been given an Access database to maintain and it has some performance issues.
I have been looking through this forums for recommendatons regardng size etc but didn't really find anything.
It is all in one file (might consider splitting it..) and it has about 350 forms, 300 database queries, 130 database tables and 200 Macros!! Filesize something around 200 MB.
In one of the forms there is a drop down that when changed refreshes two other dropdowns. I have chyecked the queris used and they are really fast but it still takes at least 6-7 seconds for the 2 dropdowns to reload!
I don't know if it is due to the way it is done, the VB code calls a macro that calls a query.
Personally I wouldn't have done it like that but there has been about 2 years since I did anything complicated with access..
Or is it the size/complexity of it that makes it slow? Does anyone have experince of a similar system?
Thanks /H
Hi,
Before I ask my question I was wondering if it was possible to attach a zip file of the database I'm working on? It would save some typing.
Thanks
Eddie.
Several of my databases is a little slow and that puzzles me since there isn't over 200mb of data yet :confused:
Is there any advantage in storing data on an oracle server and will it speed up things or is there other things I can do?
Perhaps someone in here would be so kind to look at my database and give some advice on the structure and possible changes to improve performance?
Perhaps I should add that I don't know much about other database tools so I'm shooting in blind here.
So if anybody will look at my database and see if he/she can optimize it I will be happy. I can leave little data inside to allow You to see the output - if needed.
I'm not very technical with access (not yet) so things might be done differently than I do to speed up things
Any help is greatly appreciated :)
Due to the ongoing bulk of regular spam posts that this forum receives, and based on similar activity on other forums, I think it would seem to be that the reason for this is the use of the word 'General' in the forum's title. In my experience it is the areas marked this way that generate the most spam, be it 'General Discussion' or otherwise.
So, in order to try and combat this, I was thinking that it may be in the forum's interests to change the name of this section. If it's what spambots are geared up to search for then it makes sense to shield the target from them.
My thinking is that, were I to change the name, the forum would be best placed at the base of the 'Microsoft Access Discussion' area and renamed to 'Other Issues'.
Thus, my plan would be to have the 'Microsoft Access Forum' ordered in this way:
Database Design
Tables
Queries
Forms
Reports
Macros
Modules
Other Issues
I'd appreciate others thoughts on this so reply away. There's a poll at the top of this thread if you just want to post a yes/know/don't know sort of response. The poll will only be active for one week, starting now.
Hello all active members of this forum,
Like I stated on the title, this forum got me into trouble. By following the reading in this forum and some recommendations from the regular users I have created thre database for the place I work at. now they want me to be the official DB admin! :eek:
So now I'm coming back to you guys for more advice... :rolleyes: what reading should I do to better my Access knowledge over all.
Any recommendation is welcome.
I have already contacted th local college and they do have a distant learning class for Access and I will be taking it the next semester, but I would like to do some reading into becoming a REAL Access programmer with a solid foundation.
There must be some good books out there to purchase to get me started. So all are welcome to give me some feedback.
Thanks!
René
I have been tasked to design a Forum Database using ASP, could someone please point me in the right direction as to the design for table structure for this.
I know that the user will be looking at a web front end which in turn will be accessing the Access Database.
Any assistance would be much appreciated.
Dispersion36
How long normallly does it take to get an answer?
Also, what does the "View" on the right margin mean?
could anyone please tell me how to post a database on this forum ive tried attachingit but it says file not suitable
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to design a system for an electronics shop. I have two tables, one called Products and another called Suppliers.
The Products table has the following fields-
- 1) Product ID
2) Supplier ID
3) ProductName
4) Information
5) Price
The Suppliers table has the following fields-
- 1) Supplier ID
2) Company
3) Address 1
4) Address 2
5) Address 3
6) Town
7) County
8) Post Code
9) Country
10) PhoneNumber
11) FaxNumber
Basically I want to create a form to show the supplier name and ID and then implement a sub- forum which shows all the product details for that supplier. How do I do this? Do I have to use a query?
Thanks
How does one report spaming on this Forum?
View 3 Replies View RelatedBrain-death is a horrible thing to witness.
I have searched FAQs, advanced search, etc., and know I'm not looking in the right places.
Question: How do you, in this forum, publish a URL using a descriptive title versus the actual URL itself?
Obviously it's not rocket-science since so many contributors do it apparently effortlessly, but folks I'm struggling.
Please point me in the right direction.
Thanks - Bob
Did you know that you can use Google to search the Access Forum and get a more refined result?
I find that the search facility provided is excellent at searching for single words. However it does not provide the sophistication of tools like Google for searching for exact phrases.
To get this sophistication do this:
Open Googles advanced page: (http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search?hl=en)
The first section of this page is shaded blue, and contains the following items:
with all of the words
with the exact phrase
with at least one of the words
without the words
You can add words to varying degrees of sophistication for your search.
This is the important bit!
Just below this blue shaded area there is another section, go to the fifth item down in this section which is:"Domain" also make sure "Only" is selected. In the next text box (to the right of Only) place the domain you want to search in, this case you want to search the Access Forum so place in this box the following:
http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums
Now give it a try! Try searching for: "Date Selection" (without the Quotes)
If you search for this with the above Google method, you will get 90 results, If you search this result with the Forum search then you will get over 300 results.
Caveats:
Your search will only return items within the access-programmers site, and only items that are allowed to be indexed by Google.
Cheers Tony...
Hi,
I have been using access for quiet awhile (I learned it 2 months ago). I want to have a online business (using Dreamweaver and Access) but, I want to organize my data and I want to figure out how (when you go onto a website say target.com) to make the username and password in Access (Like when you register for an account, you put in your username, password, email address...ect. and the you make your account and then when you put in you username and password again to log into your account (I want to know how to do that)). Another thing, when the person logs into a account and wants to buy a product how do you do that in access.
Any answers can help me.
You could send me a link to a webpage that tells me how to do this stuff.
Any Tips?:)
hey all,
i'm making a database to catalogue a whole bunchs of projects of mine. i have a few
questions but i'll ask one for now. i have made a form with a check box and i want it
so that once that check box is clicked, another element appears or becomes un-grayed
or something. basically if the check box is checked then i have to specify a file location
for the file that i'm confirming exists. (if that makes sense)
thanks for any help
-marwan
Surely I am not the only one who imports text files in to Access (on XP) containing double quote characters???
Does Access quit the import at the double quote character for anyone else.
To the MS Access group.. have you tried this??
Thanks
How can i make all my forums fill my screen? so dont have to recreate them? so they are not just tiny boxes. as originaly designed? I looked in hope that there maybe have been something in the startup drop drop down, but i was't so luck. also tried to select whole forum and group and name the whole thing bigger by dragging the resize command. but this just messed the whole forums up so i did't save changes.
Thanks im sure this is a really stupid question.
Shrew
Hi there!
I`ve been using Access DB for a forum for about two years now, but from time to time I have to download the db and delete about a 1000 posts (+/-).
The reason for this is that the db want accept more posts unless I do so.
My question is how do I "extend" the db to accept more posts?
Thx in advance,
Sarre
Here is my problem:
I created a Query to calculate an over all rateing useing other data that was already in the database. The Query worked out perfectly, and I then wanted to put the one field that gave me the overall rateing that I just calculated and put it into a form. So I added the Query with the rateing into the one that made up the other form and added the field to the Query. The problem was that when i went into that form and added the field, it made it so that i could no longer change any of the data on that forum. I thought that it might have something to do with the fact that there were no fields with math in them in that form untill i added the over all rateing one, could that have messed it up? Please send me some seggestions because I havent a clue at what could be worng. Thank you, Ben
Right first of all hi everyone,
i have been to about four forums now and No One has been able to make this work it can be done as i have seen it from the access sample database (Order Entry). I have been informed that this forum has the best of the best in access guru's, this problem has had me stuck for 2 weeks i don't normally asked for help but it has breached my knewledge base and now its time for an expert to have a look at it.
I have had many suggestions but none have worked, below is the link to the Order Entry database so you can see what i am trying to acheive and also another link of my actual database as it stands.
The problem is that i have a form called Customers this is displayed when the database is opened, the form has a subform called QuoteSelector that holds all the quotes if there are no quotes then the user is then able to add a new customer and then create a quote when they click the Create New Quote button.
Then another form called Quotes opens this holds the data form the quote and also has a subform called QuoteBuilder, this form holds all the materials that have been selected for the quote.
Now when i click the Create Invoice button that is on the Customers page i want all the information from these forms to be displayed in my report called Invoice. I have already created the Invoice i am just having trouble in passing the CustomerID and the QuoteID to the Invoice or i think this is what is needed in order to make all the data display.
If you can help this would be great as no other forum has been able to and this one has the best reputation for programmers with access so well i will have to see it, but please take a look at the Order Entry database and see how the Invoice is generated you will notice a box pop up letting the user enter more details i don't want this i just want the invoice to come up and then the user can print it.
Thanks in advance and hope this can be done:
This is the sample database Order Entry
Order Entry Download (http://www.weblogics.co.uk/Order Entry1.zip)
This is the Database I NEED to create the invoice for:
Database FOR Edit (http://www.weblogics.co.uk/quotes.zip)
Hi All,
Is there any way I could configure this forum in my Outlook Express using NNTP? If yes, Can I have NNTP Server Address?
Many Thanks in advance,
Jigs :)
Would this work: Having a command button that opens another database. Cheers
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