Table Design For Simple CONTACTS Database
Aug 20, 2005
Hello All,
At work we have a large and messy Contacts list so I decided to set one up using a database.
At present I have 3 tables:-
Companies (custID,companyname,address,etc)
People (nameID,firstname,middlename,lastname,custID)
Phones (phoneID,phonetype,areacode,number,?????)
My problem is this, Some of the phone nos belong to the individuals
and some belong to the company. If a person is replaced at a company I need to reasign the company phone nos to the new person whilst retaining the individuals and their personal phone nos. If a company is deleted I need to delete only the company phone nos. and if a person moves within the company I want the company nos to reasign to the new replacement but keep the personal nos of the individual. Now I see its going to be more complex than I thought.
Can anyone help me with the table layout and links. (nb this is only a simple database relating a person to a company without using departments etc.)
Its main use is to provide phone nos names and addresses quickly.
Many Thanks
Peter
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Feb 12, 2007
Hi, I was asked to help create a very simple Access DB for a small restaurant to help them keep track of inventory.
The only things that the owner wants to keep track of are:
1.Item Catalog
2.Date and Quantity of Item IN or OUT
3.Current # of Items
My problem here is that there are 5 Item categories, each with a relatively lost list of Items under each one.
1.Drinks
2.Ice Cream
3.Kitchen Supplies
4.Grocery
5.Etc.
Will it be advisable for me to create an Item Catalog TABLE for each of the category instead of piling all the Items into just one Item Catalog TABLE?
The Designs I’m currently considering are:
A.)
TABLE SET 1 : Catalog of Items
Fields (ID, Name)
•TABLE Drinks
•TABLE Ice Cream
•TABLE Kitchen Supplies
•TABLE Grocery
•TABLE ETC
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TABLE SET 2 : Movement IN/OUT of Items
Fields (Movement ID, Name, Date, IN-Amount, OUT-Amount)
•TABLE Drinks
•TABLE Ice Cream
•TABLE Kitchen Supplies
•TABLE Grocery
•TABLE ETC
B.)
TABLE 1: Catalog of Items
Fields (ID, Category, Name)
TABLE 2: Movement IN/OUT of Items
Fields (Movement ID, Name, Category, Date, IN-Amount, OUT-Amount)
I’m really more inclined to choice A because I just re-learned Access last month and will be creating my first serious database just now. I don’t want to choose a more complex table structure (choice B) that might cause problems with the DB later (as it will really be used to keep track of real-life inventory and might screw up their operations if it goes haywire). Is Design A viable? Or flawed?
Another question I have is with the structure of the Movement – IN/OUT table. Is this workable? My thought is just to let the user enter something like:
Drink [date] [IN] [OUT]
Coke [date] [2] [0]
Coke [date] [0] [1]
In the database, then compute current Quantity of the Item using a query (Sum[IN] – Sum[OUT]) . Will this work? I’m a bit apprehensive with this because I’m thinking I should have another TABLE that will store the actual inventory Quantity instead of the Quantity just being computed through query. But doing another TABLE for Quantity does complicate stuff a lot since it will have to determine which Quantity value gets added to or subtracted from based on many criteria. Will it be OK just to use the query to compute Quantity left?
Thank you so much for any help on this!
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Jun 24, 2005
I created this database long time ago, but now my boss wants to import the contacts list from outlook into the database. Now, these lists will differ per user. Right now there are 6 users, who are using the database and they all will have different contacts lists. How can I import it in a manner, when they login the outlook will will search for their contacts only and let them make changes.
I want to create a form and this form will already be filled with the contact info from the outlook, and half of the form is for the user's comments so they can circulate the information through a report to different people.
I hope I was able to send my msg across. I am pretty bad at explaining stuff.
Thank you in adv.
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Apr 20, 2007
I am building a database for an activity society. There are 2 courses in each season, each course has 10 sessions. Students can be old (returning student)and new.
What we want to achieve is to check student information, the student's attendance situation, how many students in each session, etc.
The table I designed is:
1. Student Detail (student info)
2. Spring 2006 Sunday Course (student ID, payment, each session attendance...)
3. Spring 2006 Tuesday Course
4. Summer 2006 Sunday Course
5. Summer 2006 Tuesday Course
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(each new course has a new table)
The problem is for each new course will need to add a new table. I just want to know if there is a better way to manage the data. Thanks for you help!
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Jan 2, 2014
I'm creating a database full of contacts. I have a contacts table with detailed info on each contact and I also have a company table with details on each company - all companies attached to a contact are in the company table plus a few others. I'd like to be able to pull up a company profile and see all the contacts we have associated with that company displayed in a list.
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Oct 14, 2005
Hi, All--
I am designing a database to capture the data of returned surveys. I want to design the database to facilitate data analysis through crosstabs or other aggregation queries.
If I design a table where each record is the complete survey responses to all survey items in a returned survey, this is not friendly for such query analysis. (In this, each field would be a survey item). Call this the horizontal method.
The other way would be to have a reference table containing the survey items , and have responses entered in a seperate table linked by item id and response id (from a third table containing a record for each submitted survey). Call this the vertical method. This would take more time to set up but would probably be easier to query.
The item response table would become quite long contaiging every item response for every survey turned although each record is short.
Does anyone have any opinion on this, or perhaps a completely different approach that I haven't thought of that would be easy to set up but also easy to query?
Thanks.
Paul
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Nov 7, 2005
I am trying to build a database for a local football team, and am having trouble with the design of the tables. The database contains numerous tables but my main problem is that within the database there are 4 types of people information:
Players:
(a player can have more than 1 guardian attached, eg mother, father, uncle, etc
A player could also be a member of staff eg coach)
Guradians of the players
(a guardian can be attached to more than 1 player, eg two sons playing for the same club
a guardian could be a member of staff, eg manager).
Staff Members
(A staff member can also be a guardian)
Doctors
(a doctor could be a staff member and also a guardian).
What is the best way to approach the design of these tables as i dont want to have to enter the same name, address details etc, more than once for if a person is in more then one of the people information categories.
The main focus of the database is driven by the player Information.
I want to show what guardians are responsible for each player, who the players doctor is, etc.
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Jan 15, 2014
I am still new at database design, and cant quite come to terms with my project and access way of doing things.
I have to keep a register of people who participate in projects. The projects can be of two different kinds. BUT (here comes the tricky part) The projects are being evaluated on three different indicators, with each one of these having 4 measurements, in the range of 4-0. That was a quick introduction. Now let me break it down in parts.
The people:
I have made a Uniqe identifier (Social Security number (PK))
First Name
Last Name
Department (This can be 4 different departsment) made a drop-down menu type.
The Projects:
Unique identifier (Project ID (PK))
Social Security number
Project Type
Start date
End date
Project type:
Unique identifier (TypeID (PK)
Project type (Cti / Regular)
How might i design this the best way, so i can combine the people with the projects there on. And which type.
There can only be one person, but he can be on many projects. These projects can vary in type. My problem is ensuring there connected proberly.
Furthermore, once the basic design is made i need to make evaluations based on their performance if they are on the projecttype "Cti".
here i need 3 x this:
Evaluations:
Objective (range 0-4)
Baseline reading (range 0-4)
Midway reading (range 0-4)
End reading (0-4)
Success = Yes/NO (here i will do a End reading <= Objective formula).
That was a rather long list, but i have sat working on this in three whole days, and im getting a little fed up with not knowing up-and-down.
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Jun 13, 2014
I used the Contacts Database Template to import a comma delimited txt file of contacts data. The template included a number of tables, queries, forms & reports which I did not require. I deleted them leaving only a Table entitled 'Addressbk'. I added an Entry Form using the standard access tools and this works fine with the table. However, on running the access database I get the following error message; 'The form named "Main" is mis-spelled or refers to a form that doesn't exist. My only form is labelled 'Entry Form', so it would appear that one of the forms I deleted must have been named 'Main'. If one ignores the error message the database & entry form function perfectly.
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Jul 31, 2014
I am having a problem with my Contacts Database. I have attached it for your review.
My main form entitled "frmContact", is a form to enter a new contact. I have a Notes subform, and I want to be able to enter multiple notes for one person. I have a note for John Doe, and tried to enter a new note for him and got this error message:
"The LinkMasterFields property setting has produced this error: 'The object doesn't contain the Automation object 'tblcontact"."
Why is it doing this? I tihnk I have the relationships correct, and everything...
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Nov 21, 2013
I have limited programming skills but a basic understanding of databases.I want to create a database in Access that links to contacts in an Outlook pst file, and in the Access database I want to create a series of date dependant tasks or processes that I can apply to the relevant contact.The object being to to save that collection of tasks to apply to different contacts within Access.
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I am planning my new DB and am contemplating the best design. It will be used for warehouse stock rotation and control of pallets. I want to track each pallet (product/time in/time out etc) to each pallet space within the warehouse. There are a total of 400 pallet spaces or 'locations' as i will refer to them as.
Now, would it be possible for me to have a table set up for each location? Will access object to having 400 tables in my data base?? Is there a limit?
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May 27, 2014
I have a split database made in Access 2007. Each user gets their own copy of the frontend from a script. I wanted to be able to edit the design view of the backend tables even if people were using the database so I made all the forms use snapshot source and only allowed data updates through VBA macro update queries. Having any form open locks the backend source table from being edited. In fact, I've found that just having a normal snapshot query open causes the message "Either an object bound to table 'whatever' is open or another user has the table open. Do you want to open the table as read-only?"
Is there some way to have a table be the source for a form or query, but still have it designable under most circumstances?
Attempted to late-bind a recordset on form load; result was the same:
Code:
Set rs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("Select redacted as ft from tblRedacted ", dbOpenSnapshot, dbReadOnly)
Set Me.Recordset = rs
Set rs = Nothing
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Apr 30, 2008
New to Access, and having a heck of a time learning it...or rather learning how to correctly design databases.
All my expertise is with Excel. I'm creating a project where I use Excel to parse a non comma delimited text file, then feed certain figures into an Access database. This is all through VBA.
It wasn't until yesterday that I realized I had a problem. There are two text files with data that makes up one complete record. With what I already have built, and with what I have tought myself (ADO w/ VBA wise) I tought the easiest solution would be to create two tables that will hold the data from each respective text file. This is what I'm working with:
A store has a department with 5 areas of measurement that is collected daily. One complete record would be like this:
Date | Store | Dept | Sales | Cust Count | Item Count | Avg Price | Mix
...and there are (right now) 3 stores and 15 departments that are watched in this project. What I came up with for a table design was this. Fields with an "!" prefix reflects primary keys.
Table1 (using data from txt file 1): !Date | !Store | !Dept | Sales | Mix
Table2 (using data from txt file 2): !Date | !Store | !Dept | Cust Count | Item Count | Avg Price
In each table, I have to have a compound primary key to make up what is a unique record. I just learned I could use a compound index and an autonumber as my primary key. Either way, I'm using the 3 primary keys in each table with a 1 to 1 relationship. This seems to work if I make a query.
Now, will the way I did it hold up? Is there a better, more correct way to do it?
Thank you for the time & help!
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Oct 6, 2004
Sorry about this but I have two forms in a split database, one for data entry, one for data editing. The underlying record source is a query pulling data from multiple tables which worked fine until we had to move the backend of the application. Now whenever anyone opens the data entry form (add mode only) there are no fields on the report for them to complete; they are confronted with a blank screen. The data editing one works fine, but this one cannot be put onto general access because only four people out of about 25 are allowed to edit the data.
Can anyone shed any light onto this problem.
Sorry to take up time.
mjc65
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Dec 19, 2006
my custom have a big table in the outlook, in the contacts.
in the outlook table that possible to insert also the birthday.
my custom want to send mail day-before the birthday to wish.
I want to do it with access, to link the table to the contcts and send mail if the birthday is tomorrow.
but when I try to connect to the contacts in the outlook, i get the fileds:
first name
last name
email
....
but no the birthday and the anniversary
(the table design attach)
how can I use this filed in access?
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Apr 29, 2014
Ok, I have 3 tables. One lists a contact in conjunction with the branch of the company and the trips that contact takes. The second lists a contact in conjunction with the branch of the company and which team they work with (may work with many). The third should list their email address and their phone number. Is it possible to pull the contact name and branch of company from tables 1 and 2 into 3 automatically, such that all I have to input into table 3 is additional contact information? If that is possible, is it also possible to only pull each contact/branch of company pairing once (I don't want four entries for Joe Shmoe/Sales, even if he's taken 4 trips)?
Table 1
Branch of Company
Trip Dates
Trip Location
Contact
Sales
4/1/14-4/12/14
Chicago
Joe Shmoe
HR
6/2/13-6/4/13
New York
Jane Doe
Table 2
Branch of Company
Company Team
Contact
Sales
Blue Devils
John Deere
Sales
Jets
John Deere
Sales
Jets
Joe Shmoe
HR
Sharks
Jane Doe
Table 3Contact
Branch of Company
Email
Phone
Jane Doe
HR
jane.doe@company.com
800-555-1234
Joe Shmoe
Sales
joe.shmoe@company.com
800-555-1235
John Deere
Sales
john.deere@company.com
800-555-1236
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May 15, 2013
I need setting up a history table for contacts and the companies that they are associated with. I am sure this will be obvious to some of you database veterans but I am fairly new to Access and I can't seem to figure out the best way to accomplish what I am trying to do.
Here is what I need to do:
When a contact's employment status changes, I need to change the contact's current company association but somehow maintain his or her association with the previous company so that s/he can still be associated with past projects.
So, in my contacts table (TBLContacts), I have a foreign key field "CompanyFK" that links to my companies table (TBLCompaniesPK). There is a one to many relationship between TBLCompanies and TBLContacts.
I want the CompanyFK field to be the current company but somehow link the person with past companies too so that the project directories and subforms will continue to show the contact's association with the parent company.
Maybe I don't need a history table but something else?
I have a similar problem with companies that change name, too. How to deal with takeovers, name changes, mergers, etc.
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Sep 24, 2012
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Jul 11, 2005
Today is one of those days where I can't seem to wrap my head around anything, so here goes.
I have a database where the contact information is linked to an agency name via a third table which has the contact ID# and agency ID#, and nothing else.
In a fourth table there is a list of programs with three contacts associated with each program, for simplicity sake let's just say contact1, contact2 and contact3.
I am trying to create a select query which will link (via relationships) the programs, which are associated with an agency, to the contacts table via the agency/contact join table. I am getting a complete listing of the programs and their contacts, however it is coming out like:
Program Name Contact1 Contact1 Contact1
Program Name Contact2 Contact2 Contact2
etc.
I have the query set up as follows:
Program name, Contact1, Contact2, Contact3
If you need more information let me know.
Keith
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I have three tables: Customer, Category & Products.
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Nov 8, 2005
Hello everyone. Im relatively new to access, i've only been using it for a few weeks. There are certain aspects that I cannot get my head around.
Is anyone willing to let me email them what I have done so far and the criteria for the database I am making and advise me where I am going wrong and where I need to be heading to get it right?
Thanks very much. Any help will be very much appreciated.
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Apr 15, 2007
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Hi
I have three tables
1 tblAssistFMWork in which is stored the fields JobNumber, SiteRefNumber, SurveyorNo
2 tbltable1 which has the field SiteRefNumber, Address1, Address2 etc
3 tblAssistFMSubJobNumbers which has the fields JobNumber, SubJobNumber.
JobNumber is the relationship between tables 2 and 3 and SiteRefNumber is the relationship between tables 1 and 2. There are other fields in each table but these are the relevant ones for this question.
Each JobNumber will have a minimum of one SubJobNumber but may have many. Each SubjobNumber starts at 1 for each new job so this may look like this in the table
JobNumber SubjobNumber
0001 1
0002 1
0002 2
etc
Each SiteRefNumber may have one or many JobNumbers
I wish to enter the date a SubJobNumber is completed and have been struggling with pulling the record into a form using a combo box because of the need to enter the JobNumber and also the SubJobNumber. So I decided to create a new table tblAssistFMJobDateCompleted which has the fields
JobNumber, SubJobNumber, DateJobCompleted
I need to report on a jobs status ie done or not done, but when I created the query for this it would only pull the records which have a completed date on them.
Could someone please give me some advice as to a way forward.
Thanks
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Feb 20, 2005
I have been reading other posts, and this where i should have started from the beginning,I am not very experienced with access (or forums as yous propably know) but can learn anything in no time (hopefully).
I would like to design a database to store all the info about a drag racing event including;
event info (Event name, track name, event date)
car info (Car name, gearbox type, diff ratio, engine name,)
driver info (driver firstname, driver lastname)
Engine info (make, model, engine compression, carburetor, front carburetor jets, rear carburetor jets, fuel pressure, engine timing at idle, total engine timing)
Race info (track temperature, relative altitude, milibars, humidity, air temperature, tyre type, tyre size, tyre pressure hot, tyre pressure cold, stage RPM, shift RPM, reaction, 60foot time, 330foot time, 660foot time, 660foot MPH, 1000foot time, elapsed time, elapsed MPH, comments.)
My issue is design of tables and relationships. as you can probably see, obviously cars will do many runs at each event, and there engine setups and car setups(diff ratio) can differ each run. there might also be different drivers for the same car. weather info like track temp etc also change from race to race so I think it is possible I might need some sort of race time as-well. My main reason for the database, apart from organizing all my results would be so that I could do a run at an event and search previous races by the current runs weather info (relative altitude, milibars, humidity, etc) as to set the car up similar to keep its elapsed times consistent. Please, please, please help as I am at a total loss.
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