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Old April 27th, 2010, 10:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
J_Goddard via AccessMonster.com
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Default MS Access Table Design Look Up???

Hi -

Your category/expense table really should have a single-field primary key, e.
g. account number. If you had that, then all you would need in the other
table is the account number as a foreign key back to the Category/Expense
table. You could the link the two tables in a query for reporting purposes;
grouping on Category in a report would provide the rolloup you are looking
for.

The data entry form would only need the Expenses listed in a combo box, with
the bound column being the account number - the category is also determined
by the account number.

John


Laura1 wrote:
I am trying to design a budget database and I want to have consistent
categories and expense.

I have a table with Category and Expense It looks something like this:

Category Expense
Overhead Electrcity
Overhead Internet
Employee Salary
Employee Commision

I want to creat another table where the entires will be made but want to
force these categories. I can get one colum to appear in the table Example
Internet but I can't see in the table what category it rolls up to, I see it
when I choose the expense but not after. Is there a way to populate this
table with those values and keep them together, in otherwords if you choose
internet it automatically populates Overhead and you can't change it unless
the category expense table is changed.

Thank you!


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John Goddard
Ottawa, ON Canada
jrgoddard at cyberus dot ca

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