Designing

I am running a police academy where the state certifies the instructor to
teach anywhere from one to one hundred of the required topics. I have
currently set up a table for the instructor's information including their
state certification number, expiration date (some require a renewal every 3
years, so don't expire) and a field to show which topics they may be assigned
to teach. I also have a table showing the one hundred plus topics. I need to
be sure when I make up the schedule that only approved instructors are
assigned to topics scheduled.

My current question is do I show those topics on a field in the instructor
table or in some other table and if so how do I set it up? If I do it in the
same table how do I set it up?

Thanks for your suggestions and assistance.

You should use one table for instructors that contains the demographic info
on the instructor, but there should be no fields in that table regarding
certifications.

You need a Certification table that has a record for each of the 100
certifications. It needs only an ID field and a description of the
certification.

You need an Instructor/Certification table that contains the primary key
field value of the Instructor table and the primary key field value of the
Certification table.

To determine which instructors have a specific certification, you join the
Instructor table and the InstructorCertification table in a query and filter
on the certification field.
--
Dave Hargis, Microsoft Access MVP


"Dave" wrote:

I am running a police academy where the state certifies the instructor to
teach anywhere from one to one hundred of the required topics. I have
currently set up a table for the instructor's information including their
state certification number, expiration date (some require a renewal every 3
years, so don't expire) and a field to show which topics they may be assigned
to teach. I also have a table showing the one hundred plus topics. I need to
be sure when I make up the schedule that only approved instructors are
assigned to topics scheduled.

My current question is do I show those topics on a field in the instructor
table or in some other table and if so how do I set it up? If I do it in the
same table how do I set it up?

Thanks for your suggestions and assistance.

Hello Dave,

Would you want help with your database? I could take what you have and build
a database that records and displays all your scheduled training sessions. I
provide help with Access applications for a reasonable fee. My fee to help
you would be very modest. Contact me at if you want help.

Steve


"Dave" wrote in message
...
I am running a police academy where the state certifies the instructor to
teach anywhere from one to one hundred of the required topics. I have
currently set up a table for the instructor's information including their
state certification number, expiration date (some require a renewal every
3
years, so don't expire) and a field to show which topics they may be
assigned
to teach. I also have a table showing the one hundred plus topics. I need
to
be sure when I make up the schedule that only approved instructors are
assigned to topics scheduled.

My current question is do I show those topics on a field in the instructor
table or in some other table and if so how do I set it up? If I do it in
the
same table how do I set it up?

Thanks for your suggestions and assistance.

"Steve" help_available_at_very_reasonable_rates@contactme .com wrote in
message m...
Hello Dave,

Would you want help with your database? I could take what you have and
build a database that records and displays all your scheduled training
sessions. I provide help with Access applications for a reasonable fee. My
fee to help you would be very modest. Contact me at if you
want help.

Steve


These newsgroups are provided by Microsoft for FREE peer to peer support.
There are many highly qualified individuals who gladly help for free. Stevie
is not one of them, but he is the only one who just does not get the idea of
"FREE" support. He offers questionable results at unreasonable prices. If he
was any good, the "thousands" of people he claims to have helped would be
flooding him with work, but there appears to be a continuous drought and he
needs to constantly grovel for work.

A few gems gleaned from the Word New User newsgroup over the Christmas
holidays to show Stevie's "expertise" in Word.


Dec 17, 2008 7:47 pm

Word 2007 ..........
In older versions of Word you could highlght some text then go to Format -
Change Case and change the case of the hoghloghted text. Is this still
available in Word 2007? Where?
Thanks! Steve


Dec 22, 2008 8:22 pm

I am designing a series of paystubs for a client. I start in landscape and
draw a table then add columns and rows to setup labels and their
corresponding value. This all works fine. After a landscape version is
completed, I next need to design a portrait version. Rather than strating
from scratch, I'd like to be able to cut and paste from the landscape
version and design the portrait version.
Steve


Dec 24, 2008, 1:12 PM

How do you protect the document for filling in forms?
Steve


One of my favourites:
Dec 30, 2008 8:07 PM - a reply to stevie
(The original poster asked how to sort a list and stevie offered to create
the OP an Access database)

Steve wrote:
Yes, you are right but a database is the correct tool to use not a
spreadsheet.


Not at all. If it's just a simple list then a spreadsheet is perfectly
adequate...




John... Visio MVP

Damn, I thought you had learned by now.
You know the rules and you have been told many times, so it is obvious you
are either too stupid to understand or you refuse to play by the rules.

To the OP
Ignore Steve and don't have any contact with hime.
--
Dave Hargis, Microsoft Access MVP


"Steve" wrote:

Hello Dave,

Would you want help with your database? I could take what you have and build
a database that records and displays all your scheduled training sessions. I
provide help with Access applications for a reasonable fee. My fee to help
you would be very modest. Contact me at if you want help.

Steve


"Dave" wrote in message
...
I am running a police academy where the state certifies the instructor to
teach anywhere from one to one hundred of the required topics. I have
currently set up a table for the instructor's information including their
state certification number, expiration date (some require a renewal every
3
years, so don't expire) and a field to show which topics they may be
assigned
to teach. I also have a table showing the one hundred plus topics. I need
to
be sure when I make up the schedule that only approved instructors are
assigned to topics scheduled.

My current question is do I show those topics on a field in the instructor
table or in some other table and if so how do I set it up? If I do it in
the
same table how do I set it up?

Thanks for your suggestions and assistance.

OR door number three... the quality of his work provides him with no repeat
business so he has to try to get work here!

--
Gina Whipp

"I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors
II

http://www.regina-whipp.com/index_files/TipList.htm

"Klatuu" wrote in message
...
Damn, I thought you had learned by now.
You know the rules and you have been told many times, so it is obvious you
are either too stupid to understand or you refuse to play by the rules.

To the OP
Ignore Steve and don't have any contact with hime.
--
Dave Hargis, Microsoft Access MVP


"Steve" wrote:

Hello Dave,

Would you want help with your database? I could take what you have and
build
a database that records and displays all your scheduled training
sessions. I
provide help with Access applications for a reasonable fee. My fee to
help
you would be very modest. Contact me at if you want help.

Steve


"Dave" wrote in message
...
I am running a police academy where the state certifies the instructor
to
teach anywhere from one to one hundred of the required topics. I have
currently set up a table for the instructor's information including
their
state certification number, expiration date (some require a renewal
every
3
years, so don't expire) and a field to show which topics they may be
assigned
to teach. I also have a table showing the one hundred plus topics. I
need
to
be sure when I make up the schedule that only approved instructors are
assigned to topics scheduled.

My current question is do I show those topics on a field in the
instructor
table or in some other table and if so how do I set it up? If I do it
in
the
same table how do I set it up?

Thanks for your suggestions and assistance.

Steve

Still trolling for business in the free newsgroups I see.

Why do you feel the Rules of Conduct here don't apply to you?

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP

"Steve" help_available_at_very_reasonable_rates@contactme .com wrote in
message m...
Hello Dave,

Would you want help with your database? I could take what you have and
build a database that records and displays all your scheduled training
sessions. I provide help with Access applications for a reasonable fee. My
fee to help you would be very modest. Contact me at if you
want help.

Steve


"Dave" wrote in message
...
I am running a police academy where the state certifies the instructor to
teach anywhere from one to one hundred of the required topics. I have
currently set up a table for the instructor's information including their
state certification number, expiration date (some require a renewal every
3
years, so don't expire) and a field to show which topics they may be
assigned
to teach. I also have a table showing the one hundred plus topics. I
need to
be sure when I make up the schedule that only approved instructors are
assigned to topics scheduled.

My current question is do I show those topics on a field in the
instructor
table or in some other table and if so how do I set it up? If I do it in
the
same table how do I set it up?

Thanks for your suggestions and assistance.