Tables :: Establish Tables And Proper Joins - Links
Sep 19, 2013
I have a PATIENT TABLE with PAT_ID Autonumber / Primary Key.I want to set up an Invoice and a Receipt. I know the fields I need. how many tables I should create and how they should be linked PROPERLY.
INVOICE TABLE would contain (field names and data type):
Invoice_ID Autonumber / Primary Key
PAT_ID Number (as the link to the Patient Table)
Invoice_Date Date/Time
Invoice_ Contact Text
Invoice_SentDate Date/Time
Invoice_Paid Date/Time
Invoice_Comments Memo (not to be printed on invoice just info for me)
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Note: The rest of the fields needed on the receipt are in the Patient table (i.e. services rendered to). For the receipt, the description of the service(s) will be limited to a standard text that will be set in a label on the report.
I have a table which contains information about personnel. There are several fields which I want to have consistent values inputted. For example, somebody might populate the "State" field with: California, CA, Ca, or C.A. To avoid this, I created a seperate lookup table with a list of all states, fully spelled out, and the digraph abreviation associated with each state. The digraph is the primary key for this new table. In all, I have 12 such lookup tables.
Having all these extra tables, while nice for clarity sake, seems excessive. In most cases, the lookup tables really only require one column, though I've always used a minimum of two (one is an acronym set as the primary key, and one is a fully spelled out description). I'm finding the primary key is often not useful to somebody reading the data; the full description is much better.Could I have one catch all lookup table which combines all of the standardized fields which I want to use, and have no primary key for said table?
I have recently learned how to link photos to a database using a form and a table listing the path to each photo. Is there anyway to format the records in the table so that when you click on the path the photo shows up?
I have browsed around past threads and have not found and answer.
I have a query where I am trying to set the where criteria expression using an unlinked table. The unlinked table name is INV DATES. The criteria field is [THE_DATE]. I cannot really link the fields for the two tables since I am using an expression. This design works, but it goes really slow.
Any ideas?
SELECT DISTINCT DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.LOT_NUMBER, DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.OPERATION, DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.OPERATION_START_TIME, DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.OPERATION_END_TIME, DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.CURRENT_QUANTITY AS QUANTITY, DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.CURRENT_QUANTITY_TIME AS [DATE], DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.LOT_HOLD_FLAG, DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.ACTIVE_FLAG, [INV DATES].THE_DATE, [INV DATES].WEEK_NUMBER_IN_YEAR, [INV DATES].MONTH_NUMBER_IN_YEAR INTO ROXES FROM DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS, [INV DATES] WHERE (((DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.LOT_NUMBER) Like "R1*" Or (DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.LOT_NUMBER) Like "R2*" Or (DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.LOT_NUMBER) Like "R4*" Or (DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.LOT_NUMBER) Like "R5*" Or (DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.LOT_NUMBER) Like "RR" Or (DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.LOT_NUMBER) Like "B0*" Or (DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.LOT_NUMBER) Like "B1*" Or (DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.LOT_NUMBER) Like "B2*" Or (DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.LOT_NUMBER) Like "B5*" Or (DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.LOT_NUMBER) Like "B4*") AND ((DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.OPERATION_START_TIME)<=[INV DATES]![THE_DATE]) AND ((DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.OPERATION_END_TIME)>[INV DATES]![THE_DATE] Or (DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.OPERATION_END_TIME) Is Null) AND ((DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.CURRENT_QUANTITY_TIME )>=Now()-600) AND ((DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.FACILITY)="STPPRD" Or (DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.FACILITY)="EPIPRD")) ORDER BY DSSAPP_FULL_WIP_PROD_STATS.OPERATION;
As i'm still what can be called a "newbie" in MS Access, maybe one of you wizards can help me out with this.
I'm having a product table in ms access, containing a few columns. The regular stuff (type, ID, ..). It also contains a column i want to store the links to their documentation to, called "download'.
The fields of that table are loaded into a data access page.
Now the data access page is loaded into the frame of an HTML page. Everything works well, but when it comes to the download-field, i get no link, but a piece of code instead.
Now these links are relative links (not absolute ones). What i'm searching for (for quiete some time now), is a way to make the links show as normal links.
Is there anyone who could give me a hint or who can help me out with this?
I was recently doing a little Spring Cleaning in my database and deleting old tables and queries that were no longer used or had been for experimental purposes. Unfortunately, I unknowingly deleted a query that was being used by a report I still needed and it took me several hours to find and correct the problem.
Not wanting to repeat this mistake, I began searching for a way to display my reports, queries, and tables and all the objects each is linked to. I thought it would be nice, for instance, to have a hard copy list of all my queries that showed where they are derived from and what other objects reference them. Is there a way to do this?
I've tried using the "Relationships" button and working with the Documenter, but I haven't found what I'm looking for. I have also tried a Google search, but, admittedly, I may not be using the proper terminology to get good results.
myDatabase has a load of linked tables from myTables. Problem; my network drives are mapped differently from the users, so the links do not work for me.
So - does anyone know how I can set up a relative link, so myDatabase looks for datamyTables? i.e. it looks from the source directory rather than checking the whole path back to the root?
Once external tables have been linked to a database can the links ever get dropped accidentally.
ie should I test for missing links and recreate them programatically or assume that it will never happen?
It is easy enough to identify links which are present but any code which loops through the tabledefs will only identify links which are present.
I think the best approach, if this is necessary, would be to count the number of external links, compare the answer to what it should be, and refresh all the links if theree is a difference.
I have an application in MS Access that contains some forms and reports. I want to be able to show pictures on the forms. So I am saving images on file system and storing links to those images in MS Access tables so that they can be retrieved and be shown on the forms. Can someone throw light on the effects of this approach on performance of the application (especially vis-a-vis the approach of storing images in the Access tables as OLE objects)?
Would appreciate if responses can be directed to my email-id Satya_Nadiminti@infosys.com
I have a club member registration application consisting of a program database and a data database. They reside in the same directory. There is an autoexec macro which runs at the beginning. This macro has to find the DATAdb and make sure that the required tables are linked (Not all tables). If it cannot find the DATAdb and then has to make a call to the user to use a different procedure.
Now to find the DATAdb I have used the following code that works. The function GetPathAndName parses the string db.name and outputs the path and name of the PROGdb. Up to here no problems.
Code: GetPathAndName db.Name, FrontPath, dName
Then I use the following code to get the fullpath of the last database used and thereby find the path and name of the last DATAdb. The path of PROGdb is used in place of the existing path of DATAdb to check whether the file exists.
Code: Dim rs As Recordset, cPath As String, cName As String Set rs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("SELECT Database, Type " & _ "FROM MSysObjects " & _ "WHERE ((MsysObjects.Type) = 6) AND ((MsysObjects.Name) = 'MembersTbl') " & _ "ORDER BY MsysObjects.DateUpdate DESC;")
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As the final step I use the table definitions to refresh links that already exist and connect tables that are not linked The code is below. But I can not get it to work. It links 7 tables instead of 16 and when tested in different folder says invalid operation and so on. There is fundamental error some place but I could not figure it out.
Code: On Error GoTo Error_Linking Debug.Print "TableDefs.Count="; db.TableDefs.Count For I = 0 To db.TableDefs.Count - 1 Debug.Print "TableDefs("; I; ").Connect="; db.TableDefs(I).Connect Debug.Print "TableDefs("; I; ").Name="; db.TableDefs(I).Name
I searched and couldn't find anything on this specific issue.
I'm on the verge of designing a pretty big database and I've run into what may become a bit of a problem. There will probably be several backends in different locations. Should another backend ever be created or if the location for one changes, the user can use a form to refresh the links to the tables on that specific database.
The way I've done this so far is by having a piece of code that checks the tables for a connection string. If the table has a connection string, its a linked table, so the link gets deleted and replaced with the new link. Well this will no long work since there will be several backends and only 1 of them may need its tables relinked and using that code will delete all the table links, including the good ones.
Is there a way to make 'DoCmd.TransferDatabase' overwrite table names instead of giving the duplicate tables a number suffix? I think that doing this would be easier than retrieving the table names from the new backend and comparing them with the linked table names in the frontend so the old links could then be deleted.
I found 2 examples of code to refresh my attached table link to sharepoint lists.
I have a scheduled task open my Access 2010 db and an autoexec macro runs and closes the db.
My problem is my tables disconnect from sharepoint 2010 and the update fails.
I added the code I found to a module and added a line in my macro to run the code. Now I cannot get the code to work.
Am I at least on the right track? I just want to know before I spend many hours getting this code to work.
These are the two locations of code I found.
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I think part of my problem is that I have a regular table that I add a txt file to that is not linked to sharepoint so I need to exclude it from the code.
Is there a way to just select like through a find dialog box, the location of a databases backend location and just automatically create all the links for the link tables...
The reason Im asking, is my boss wants the database to be on his laptop in the event that the network is down, and also so that he can work away from the company's location but I was showing him the implications of having it installed locally on his machine should his laptop go down....
So now I'm wondering if i could
1. do some automation that allows him to just choose the location of the databases backend that he would be working from, be it on the network or on his machine
and
2. using both backends to update or overwrite each other depending on which he was working from or did updates to..
Really would love all the help and input I can get on this... Im willing to work on developing a sample for this if nothing is exactly already out there so that it can be reposted cause i think this would be very useful to everyone's database applications.
I have a client who needs a Database created in Access for him. he would like to regularly auto-populate this Access DB from an Excel file - like twice a week.In addition, he wants me to create Forms, Queries, reports and Macros for him in the Access, which will have 2 Tables from Excel files and about 3 Tables created in Access.I figured that I could do that if I gave him a link to the Tables he needed from the Excel file(s). But how do I work remotely for him- the path to those files is on his computer. I can load them to mine, but then he can't open the files.How can I create Forms etc. in an Access DB which uses links from source files as its Tables?
I am trying to develop a query in MS Access 2010 to join two tables using three joins one of which is a (between) date range. The tables are contained in Access.
ABCPART links to XYZPART. ABCSERIAL links to XYZSERIAL. ABCDATE links to (between) XYZDATE1 and ZYZDATE2. [ABCTABLE] ABCORDER ABCPART
Currently trying to build a database for customer management and order placement/tracking. Want to set a couple of rules so that if I for instance click yes of billing and shipping address the same that the database will automatically fill the shipping address with the data I inputted for the billing address in the same table.
The other issue I can see I'll run into is, I want to be able to select one of the company ID's (made up of a three letter abbreviation of the full company name) in the product ordering table and it will automatically fill in the rest of the customer data (phone, email, address etc) data into that form.
I have a table of courses our university offers along with what restrictions are placed on them. The table has the Course ID as the primary key, and then the field is Restriction. For the sake of the example, I'll use the course names instead of their ID #s:
Course Name Restriction Acting II Acting I Acting II Fundamentals of Acting Acting II No Freshmen
How can I incorporate the following logic into this table.You must take either Acting I OR Fundamentals of Acting before taking Acting II AND you must not be a freshman.this table is in a "one to many" relationship with the course inventory table. One course may be associated with many restrictions.
I sure am having difficulty with this. I'm trying to have the criteria in my form refer to a text box within one of my forms which is the text as I would write it myself within the query design view.
[calcDestZip5]'s value in QueryWizard form = "55422" OR "55343"
Basically, I just want to be able to enter the text string within a form instead of within the query. Sure this can be done!
Oh, and for what it's worth... If, [calcDestZip5]'s value in QueryWizard form = "55422" Then the query runs just fine. It's as if the query doesn't want to accept multiple criteria from another source.
I just restructured my DB and I was wondering if anyone can give me some advice on whether or not my joins/relations are correct. I left some joins/relations out because I wasn't sure what relation I should use.
What I have is a database setup with multiple tables in which different areas of my DC can input information simultaneously into their respective tables. I then have another database linked to it for myself to have a live view of each updated record. I would like to see all the records of each table in 1 single table (possibly just sorted ascending by time). Each table has the same Field headings but may have different qtys of records. As I will then have it linked to an Excel table to VLOOKUP from it.
I have tried Union coding but always get Syntax Error etc.
I'm using the MS Access 2010 ExportwithFormating action to export three tables to a single MS Excel 2010 workbook. The action overwrites the first excel worksheet each time instead of saving all three worksheets in a single excel workbook.
How can I export three tables into a single excel workbook.
I have created a table that acts as a header for my data and a second table that acts as line item data. What I need to do now is add a second child table that uses the line item data as its parent table and stores associated line items for each record. Is this possible?
I am using calculated field as a data type in access 2010.
They are working fine.
However, I added a new field and now the final calc won't work.
I have Subtotal adding loads of fields together. Works fine.
Then I have a VATunit field which is a double integer, so enter 20 and my next field is VATTotal calculates the SubTotal + the VATunit by doing (Subtotal/100)*VATunit. This calculation is fine and gives me the correct amount.
The next field is a Total field. Which adds Subtotal and the VATTotal together. Howver, the Total is the same as Subtotal. It is not adding the VATTotal to it?
I have some experience doing 'Update Query' using two different tables but I'm having a hard time doing an 'Update Query' using 3 tables.
I have my source table TP05XY with the fields 'Mark' 'Date' 'UTM_Edig' and 'UTM_Ndig'. Mark and Date are my primary keys (they together uniquely ID each record). I have my Observations table with the fields 'Mark' 'Date' and 'Obs_ID'. The last table is Locations with 'Obs_ID' 'UTM_E' and 'UTM_N'.
I want to update my fields UTM_E and UTM_N from UTM_Edig and UTM_Ndig. However, to do so, I have to go from my TP05XY table, through Observations table to update Locations table. Table TP05XY is joined to Observations through 'Mark' and 'Date' and Observations table is linked to Locations through 'Obs_ID' field.
I have tried a few options without success ... anyone knows how to do it?
