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Table design with many similar fields
Hi
I am designing a classical music database and am a bit stuck on how to manage the movements of a work. I have a table Work (primary key WorkID and linked to Artist, Composer etc) which can have numerous individual movements, each of which has a duration. I want to avoid the Work table having a load of fields like Movemnt1, Movemnt 2 etc, and Duration1, Duration2, etc. How can I link to a Movement table for instance, where I do not have to predefine the maximum number of possible movements as fields - a work might have 20 or more movements? I would really appreciate some expert advice. Thanks Richard -- Message posted via AccessMonster.com http://www.accessmonster.com/Uwe/For...esign/200907/1 |
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Table design with many similar fields
Create a related table for the movements. Fields:
- WorkID relates to your main table - MovementNum Number - MovementName Text Use the combination of WorkID + MovementNum as the primary key. For each work, this table can have as many records as the work has movements. To interface it, use a main form for the work, with a subform (in Continuous View) for the movements (one per row.) -- Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org. "RichardGarfield via AccessMonster.com" u52844@uwe wrote in message news:991c90b1b7511@uwe... Hi I am designing a classical music database and am a bit stuck on how to manage the movements of a work. I have a table Work (primary key WorkID and linked to Artist, Composer etc) which can have numerous individual movements, each of which has a duration. I want to avoid the Work table having a load of fields like Movemnt1, Movemnt 2 etc, and Duration1, Duration2, etc. How can I link to a Movement table for instance, where I do not have to predefine the maximum number of possible movements as fields - a work might have 20 or more movements? I would really appreciate some expert advice. Thanks Richard -- Message posted via AccessMonster.com http://www.accessmonster.com/Uwe/For...esign/200907/1 |
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Table design with many similar fields
Many thanks, Allen, that's exactly what I needed. I will just add a
MovementDuration field. Regards Richard Allen Browne wrote: Create a related table for the movements. Fields: - WorkID relates to your main table - MovementNum Number - MovementName Text Use the combination of WorkID + MovementNum as the primary key. For each work, this table can have as many records as the work has movements. To interface it, use a main form for the work, with a subform (in Continuous View) for the movements (one per row.) Hi [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] Richard -- Message posted via AccessMonster.com http://www.accessmonster.com/Uwe/For...esign/200907/1 |
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Table design with many similar fields
"Steve" garbage_available_at_very_inflated_rates@ignoreme .com wrote in
message ... I would charhe a modest fee to do this. That's because you're a slime-ball as can be seen he http://home.tiscali.nl/arracom/whoissteve.html The OP got a freebie from a most reputable source which is exactly what this group is for. |
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Table design with many similar fields
Your lack of integrity is astounding.
To the OP: This purpose of this news group is to provide FREE support, a fact which Steve is fully aware of but chooses to ignore. If you want to know more about Steve, see this link; http://home.tiscali.nl/arracom/whoissteve.html -- _________ Sean Bailey "Steve" wrote: Hi Richard, If you have the music files for the complete work, I can add to your database to play the work through Windows Media Player. If you have separate music files for wach movement, I can add to your database to play a selected movement through Windows Media Player. I would charhe a modest fee to do this. Steve "RichardGarfield via AccessMonster.com" u52844@uwe wrote in message news:991c90b1b7511@uwe... Hi I am designing a classical music database and am a bit stuck on how to manage the movements of a work. I have a table Work (primary key WorkID and linked to Artist, Composer etc) which can have numerous individual movements, each of which has a duration. I want to avoid the Work table having a load of fields like Movemnt1, Movemnt 2 etc, and Duration1, Duration2, etc. How can I link to a Movement table for instance, where I do not have to predefine the maximum number of possible movements as fields - a work might have 20 or more movements? I would really appreciate some expert advice. Thanks Richard -- Message posted via AccessMonster.com http://www.accessmonster.com/Uwe/For...esign/200907/1 |
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Table design with many similar fields
Thanks to all (except Steve) for the advice.
I have had the benefit of Allen's experience before on the MS Community site, so am well aware of how it works. As for the other person's chutzpah, it demeans only himself and is better ignored, although it tends to make these threads longer than really necessary as each genuine advisor vents their anger. Regards Richard Beetle wrote: Your lack of integrity is astounding. To the OP: This purpose of this news group is to provide FREE support, a fact which Steve is fully aware of but chooses to ignore. If you want to know more about Steve, see this link; http://home.tiscali.nl/arracom/whoissteve.html Hi Richard, [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] Richard -- Message posted via AccessMonster.com http://www.accessmonster.com/Uwe/For...esign/200907/1 |
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Table design with many similar fields - our favourite troll is at it again
"Steve" help_available_at_very_reasonable_rates@contactme .com wrote in
message ... Hi Richard, If you have the music files for the complete work, I can add to your database to play the work through Windows Media Player. If you have separate music files for wach movement, I can add to your database to play a selected movement through Windows Media Player. I would charhe a modest fee to do this. 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 |
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Table design with many similar fields
On Jul 15, 9:49*am, "Steve"
help_available_at_very_reasonable_ra...@contactme .com wrote: Hi Richard, If you have the music files for the complete work, I can add to your database to play the work through Windows Media Player. If you have separate music files for wach movement, I can add to your database to play a selected movement through Windows Media Player. I would charhe a modest fee to do this. Steve "RichardGarfield via AccessMonster.com" u52844@uwe wrote in messagenews:991c90b1b7511@uwe... Hi I am designing a classical music database and am a bit stuck on how to manage the movements of a work. I have a table Work (primary key WorkID and linked to Artist, Composer etc) which can have numerous individual movements, each of which has a duration. I want to avoid the Work table having a load of fields like Movemnt1, Movemnt 2 etc, and Duration1, Duration2, etc. How can I link to a Movement table for instance, where I do not have to predefine the maximum number of possible movements as fields - a work might have 20 or more movements? I would really appreciate some expert advice. Thanks Richard -- Message posted via AccessMonster.com http://www.accessmonster.com/Uwe/For...lesdbdesign/20... so can pretty much anybody... use some API code... PlaySound from www.mvps.org Don't trust this clown. He's just after your money. |
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