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Please suggest relationships model
I have three full time developers working for me. I have done thousands
of small jobs for customers just like the people who post in the Gina, this is where the warning bells go off. If he has "helped" thousands, he would not have time to "help" in the newsgroups let alone solicite because he would be swamped with follow ups? Is he exagerating about the numbers or was he able to satisfy them 100% the first time. Some thing seems fishy even with a client base of 100, he should be busy for life. John... Visio MVP |
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Please suggest relationships model
My fees have always been very reasonable. I strive to work together with
customers and I Still can not resist the opportunity to solicit? resource for help with Access, Excel and Word applications. Your webpages speak volumes about your expertise in these areas. It has been very successful for me. So why do you need to annoy posters in these newsgroups with your gorvelling for work? After all these years, I am the first to admit I make mistakes. Pull the other one. You are the last and you usually are in full denial when your mistakes are pointed out. However, I always make my best effort to correct my mistakes. Unfortunately, that is not good enough. Yu are still abusing these newsgroups. John... Visio MVP |
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Please suggest relationships model
Steve,
It is obvious you are the one that is on the same track as you STILL don't see my point. No point in contiuing this as you are going to continue to abuse these newsgroups. There's an old saying "Trying to change someone is as useless as trying to teach a pig to dance. It is a waste of time, and it really ****es the pig off." I'm done trying... -- Gina Whipp "I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors II "Steve" wrote in message hlink.net... Do you approach your customers in the same one-track view you have looked at my response in this thread? You saw I made a response and immediately convinced yourself to take the Arno R, John Marshall, Keith Wilby narrow minded view. You denied yourself critical, need to know, information! Take a look at the OP's original post. Quote: "Can someone suggest an efficient relationships model to make this work?" Now look at my response. Here it is in its entirety: I have assumed that your inventory items are consumable and periodically you purchase items to replenish your inventory. TblJob JobID JobNumber JobDescription Job Address fields TblItem ItemID ItemDesc QuantityOnHand TblItemToJob ItemToJobID JobID ItemToJobDate TblJobItem JobItemID ItemToJobID ItemID Quantity JobItemAssignedCost TblItemVendor ItemVendorID VendorName Vendor contact fields TblVendorItem VendorItemID ItemVendorID ItemID ItemCost TblItemPurchase ItemPurchaseID ItemVendorID PurchaseDate PurchaseOrderNumber TblItemPurchaseDetail ItemPurchaseDetailID ItemPurchaseID ItemID Quantity UnitCost If you need help, I can help you for a very reasonable fee. Contact me at my email address below. PC Datasheet Providing Customers A Resource For Help With Access, Excel And Word Applications Now look at what I provided the OP. He asked for a "suggest an efficient relationships model" and I gave him my suggestion. It was only after this that I offered fee-paid help for a very reasonable fee if he needed further help. The OP had a set of tables to work with just as he asked and if he felt he could take it from that point he was free to start working on his database. However, if he wanted his database quick and painless, I provided him a resource to go to get that. That was additional help provided to the OP whereby he could avail himself of that help if he so decided. That's called value added in business jargon. That's the same as telling an OP to go out and buy Ken Getz's Developer's Handbook if he wants to do something covered in that book. You frequently see that recommendation in the newsgroups. The path to success lies in looking at the forest and not a single tree. PC Datasheet Providing Customers A Resource For Help With Access, Excel And Word Applications "Gina Whipp" wrote in message ... Steve, If the business owner came here seeking advice then that's what he should get FREE advice. If the business owner wants to hire a professional the that's what he should he should get. What the business owner should not get is services he didn't ASK for. You offer your services BEFORE anyone even ASKS for it, do you ot understand the difference? That is the ONLY point I am trying to make. Here you are in the newsgroup offering services that were NOT ASKED for. I am glad you are so successful but honestly I have to wonder why you then risk it all to 'troll' in newsgroups? Your reputation is all you have and what would your customers think if they knew you were in newsgroups 'fishing' for customers, knowing this is NOT the place for such actions? I got to be a consultant in the same way you did. And here is where I am now -- I work from home and have not had a 9-5 job in almost fifteen years. I have three full time developers working for me. I have done thousands of small jobs for customers just like the people who post in the newsgroups and a few larger jobs. Okay, then how would you feel if someone suggested you couldn't do it and did it for you? Where would you be today, at your 9 to 5 job. I have not done thousands of jobs, nor is that my goal because I don't do small jobs anymore, I pass them on to others. (As a matter of fact, I'm TRYING to take August off.) And when work runs out I will look for more but NOT in the FREE newsgroups. My mission has always been to provide customers a resource for help with Access, Excel and Word applications. My fees have always been very reasonable. I find it interesting that you feel the need to keep repeating how reasonable your fees are, which is to me would indicate they are not. It sounds like a car salesman telling me how reasonalble he's being in on my trade in with his fingers crossed behind his back! I strive to work together with customers and I strive to make the customer feel well-satisfied working with me. It has been very successful for me. After all these years, I still am learning and I recognize that the learning will never stop. After all these years, I am the first to admit I make mistakes. However, I always make my best effort to correct my mistakes. As I said before, your reputation is all you have and right now if I were a customer and looked you up in the newsgroup, I'm looking for someone else. If it is true that you try to correct your mistakes then STOP 'trolling', you can see it's wrong, at the very least WAIT till they ask for help. It's kind of like the phone solictors always calling asking don't you want to refiance? Well, IF I ever thought about it, I would NEVER call any of the ones that harassed me by calling me. -- Gina Whipp "I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors II "Steve" wrote in message link.net... And where do you think a business owner would be if he spent five years trying to create databases for his company rather than hiring some one to create databases for him and he managing his business? For that matter, where do you think a company would be if key employees spent five years trying to create databases for their company rather than asking their manager to hire someone to create databases for him? I got to be a consultant in the same way you did. And here is where I am now -- I work from home and have not had a 9-5 job in almost fifteen years. I have three full time developers working for me. I have done thousands of small jobs for customers just like the people who post in the newsgroups and a few larger jobs. My mission has always been to provide customers a resource for help with Access, Excel and Word applications. My fees have always been very reasonable. I strive to work together with customers and I strive to make the customer feel well-satisfied working with me. It has been very successful for me. After all these years, I still am learning and I recognize that the learning will never stop. After all these years, I am the first to admit I make mistakes. However, I always make my best effort to correct my mistakes. PC Datasheet Providing Customers A Resource For Help With Access, Excel And Word Applications "Gina Whipp" wrote in message ... To answer your question... If he wants to do it himself which I am gathering because here he is in a FREE newsgroup then I, along with folks much more qualified, assist him. I will NOT 'push' my services on him. However, if is asking for paid help, I will direct him to the MANY sites where he could look for a professional in his area, as well as, check their references, perhaps even have them come in and show samples of their work. I WILL NOT EVER suggest myself. If he happens to find my name on one of those MANY sites where you post your services, then I would mention I saw him in a newsgroup. But I am NOT here to 'fish' for business and I am certainly NOT gong to suggest hiring a professional prior to him/her even asking for one. I was a beginner once and this is where I came to learn and I still come for tips. I would have been insulted if someone suggested I was incapable of doing this myself. Look at me now, I contract for several companies. Where would I be if I had not dared to try? If these groups weren't here? If I hired a prefessional? Now I work from home, I have not had a 9-5 job in 5 years and NEVER ONCE did I go trolling! -- Gina Whipp "I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors II "Steve" wrote in message link.net... O.K., let's put it in other words --- If you saw a post by a business owner where it is obvious he has only dabbled in Access and he says he desparately needs a way to track his inventory, would you advise him to spend time trying to create an inventory database and go to the newsgroups, books and other resources when he needs help or would you advise him to hire someone to create an inventory database for him and spend his time managing his business? Steve "Gina Whipp" wrote in message ... If he came to me (your words) then he got my name from someone and contacted me directly, NOT via a newsgroup, therefore I can do business with him. However, these people aren't 'coming to you'... you are going to them. -- Gina Whipp "I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors II "Steve" wrote in message ink.net... You miised the whole point! If a business owner who has only dabbled in Access came to you wanting a way to track his inventory, would you advise him to spend time trying to create an inventory database and go to the newsgroups, books and other resources when he needs help or would you advise him to hire someone to create an inventory database for him and spend his time managing his business? Steve "Gina Whipp" wrote in message ... Steve, If this is a reply to my eMail then please don't try to explain your soliciting to me. It is wrong in a FREE peer-to-peer newsgroup. I 'write' databases and have been doing so for 10 years. Right now, I am doing 6 contracts and am looking for help but it would never even occur to me to advertise for help here! And NEVER, let me me repeat that, NEVER have I ever tried to solicit work from this FREE newsgroup or any other FREE newsgroup unless they supply a section to do just that. I don't show my eMail address, no links to my site, NADA, NOTHING, ZILCH... well, you get the idea, because that is not why these groups are here! I will also note, that I get my work by word-of-mouth and have to provide my web page... AND even if I ran out of work tomorrow, I would NEVER solicit here! I come to here to get help and give help when I can. I come here to learn, share and sometimes get a good chuckle! I don't come here to post my resume or sell my services. So please, don't offer your lame reasoning for trying to drum up business. If contracting is not working for you get another job until something comes along. -- Gina Whipp "I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors II "Steve" wrote in message ink.net... Do-it-yourself is not always the best decision. In fact, it can be a very poor decision. Yes, from only the database point of view, if you create a database and it works for you, do it yourself is cheapest. From a business perspective, it can be much more expensive than hiring someone to build the database for you. The do-it-yourself route requires dedicated time and effort which means taking the time and effort away from something else. If you could have spent that time in a more profitable way such as increasing sales, the database cost you the value of the lost sales and that could easily be many times the fees you would have paid someone to create the database for you. PC Datasheet Providing Customers A Resource For Help With Access, Excel And Word Applications "Gina Whipp" wrote in message ... Moe, Below is a few links to help you get started... Please note, this FREE newsgroup provided by Microsoft would NEVER dream of charging you. Everyone (well almost everyone) VOLUNTEERS their time to provide FREE support and assistance. Ms Access Fundamentals: http://www.functionx.com/access/ Samples downloads: http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/TableOfContents3.asp Code, sample downloads, sample coding (I love this site): http://www.mvps.org/access/ Data model samples: http://www.databasedev.co.uk/data_models.html -- Gina Whipp "I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors II "Moe" wrote in message ... What I need to do: I have some rather expensive inventory items that I need to keep track of. These are to be used in several projects (jobs). I'm trying to design a simple database to help me keep track of where everything goes, so I can bill the right job for the right products. More Details: Inventory items have an ID, and description. I need to know how many of each item I still have remaining. Jobs have unique ID numbers (I dont want to use autonumber for this). I was thinking maybe I could design something that would sort of do transactions. Assign a transaction ID (Autonumber is ok), A date, a project # (job#) and how many of each of the inventory items were transfered on that date, or transaction. I did a little designing, and came up with three tables. Inventory |_ ID |_ Description |_ Quatntity on hand (??) Jobs |_ ID |_ Address Transactions |_ ID (autonumber ok) |_ Date |_ Quantity |_ Description Can someone suggest an efficient relationships model to make this work? Thanks in advance -- Moe |
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John,
I must concur... I myself am having a hard time with the 'few' (compared to thousands) clients I have. I am looking for help because of the support, upgrades and can you please add issues that come up now! Oh well, I guess I figured a rational conversation would do the trick but I was wrong. Off to code I go, as with my skimpy client base I have to work and yet another weekend! -- Gina Whipp "I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors II "John Marshall, MVP" wrote in message ... I have three full time developers working for me. I have done thousands of small jobs for customers just like the people who post in the Gina, this is where the warning bells go off. If he has "helped" thousands, he would not have time to "help" in the newsgroups let alone solicite because he would be swamped with follow ups? Is he exagerating about the numbers or was he able to satisfy them 100% the first time. Some thing seems fishy even with a client base of 100, he should be busy for life. John... Visio MVP |
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Look again at my post. Quote: "I have done thousands of small jobs for
customers just like the people who post in the newsgroups and a few larger jobs." There is no mention there of thousands of clients. You saw John Marshall say that I said I have thousands of clients and you locked yourself into the Arno R, John Marshall, Keith Wilby mentality. You have ten years to think about your approach and then let's see where you are at at that time. PC Datasheet Providing Customers A Resource For Help With Access, Excel And Word Applications "Gina Whipp" wrote in message ... John, I must concur... I myself am having a hard time with the 'few' (compared to thousands) clients I have. I am looking for help because of the support, upgrades and can you please add issues that come up now! Oh well, I guess I figured a rational conversation would do the trick but I was wrong. Off to code I go, as with my skimpy client base I have to work and yet another weekend! -- Gina Whipp "I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors II "John Marshall, MVP" wrote in message ... I have three full time developers working for me. I have done thousands of small jobs for customers just like the people who post in the Gina, this is where the warning bells go off. If he has "helped" thousands, he would not have time to "help" in the newsgroups let alone solicite because he would be swamped with follow ups? Is he exagerating about the numbers or was he able to satisfy them 100% the first time. Some thing seems fishy even with a client base of 100, he should be busy for life. John... Visio MVP |
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W0W! ... I was not expecting to start a flame war here. Just wanted a little
help with my small little project here. The assumptions tat steve made about it (the need to replenish the inventory) would be nice, but I dont consider it necessary at the moment. Of course, I could hire someone or buy an application to do the job, but I always wanted to create a useful database, never did take an Access course, but I can get the hang of most things on my own, with just a tiny little push. And besides, this is just a one-time deal, so the life of this database will end when the inventory runs out ( in about 3 - 4 months) With that said, I might as well add that I pretty much figured out how the data is stored, and what kind of fields I need to have in my tables. Relationships is the one thing that I just dont get, which is why I originally asked for a relationships model. But thanks (especially Gina for your links), I'll check them out, maybe I can get what I need to get me going. -- Moe |
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It was not your fault. Master santos knows the rules and choses to ignore
them. These newsgroups were set up by Microsoft for free peer to peer support, so that users can ask questions without being hounded by snake oil salesmen. Over the past few years, master santos has chosen to be the only one who has chosen to disregard this fact, pretends to be an expert and hounds unsuspecting users for work. John... Visio MVP "Moe" wrote in message ... W0W! ... I was not expecting to start a flame war here. Just wanted a little help with my small little project here. The assumptions tat steve made about it (the need to replenish the inventory) would be nice, but I dont consider it necessary at the moment. Of course, I could hire someone or buy an application to do the job, but I always wanted to create a useful database, never did take an Access course, but I can get the hang of most things on my own, with just a tiny little push. And besides, this is just a one-time deal, so the life of this database will end when the inventory runs out ( in about 3 - 4 months) With that said, I might as well add that I pretty much figured out how the data is stored, and what kind of fields I need to have in my tables. Relationships is the one thing that I just dont get, which is why I originally asked for a relationships model. But thanks (especially Gina for your links), I'll check them out, maybe I can get what I need to get me going. -- Moe |
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No worries, every once in awhile we run off on tagents in here!
Your welcome... I thought one of those links showed data models (which actually are relationships) they just choose a differet name. Ayway, best of luck, and come back for more FREE advice any time you want! -- Gina Whipp "I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors II "Moe" wrote in message ... W0W! ... I was not expecting to start a flame war here. Just wanted a little help with my small little project here. The assumptions tat steve made about it (the need to replenish the inventory) would be nice, but I dont consider it necessary at the moment. Of course, I could hire someone or buy an application to do the job, but I always wanted to create a useful database, never did take an Access course, but I can get the hang of most things on my own, with just a tiny little push. And besides, this is just a one-time deal, so the life of this database will end when the inventory runs out ( in about 3 - 4 months) With that said, I might as well add that I pretty much figured out how the data is stored, and what kind of fields I need to have in my tables. Relationships is the one thing that I just dont get, which is why I originally asked for a relationships model. But thanks (especially Gina for your links), I'll check them out, maybe I can get what I need to get me going. -- Moe |
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If replenishing inventory is not necessary, eliminate TblVendor,
TblVendorItem, TblItemPurchase and TblItemPurchaseDetail from the list I gave you originally. Regarding reletionships: 1. In TblItemToJob, join JobID from TblJob to JobID 2. In TblJobItem, join ItemToJobID From TblItemToJob to ItemToJobID 3. In TblJobItem, join ItemID From TblItem to ItemID When you create the relationships, be sure to check referential integrity. If you need further help, let me know. PC Datasheet Providing Customers A Resource For Help With Access, Excel And Word Applications "Moe" wrote in message ... W0W! ... I was not expecting to start a flame war here. Just wanted a little help with my small little project here. The assumptions tat steve made about it (the need to replenish the inventory) would be nice, but I dont consider it necessary at the moment. Of course, I could hire someone or buy an application to do the job, but I always wanted to create a useful database, never did take an Access course, but I can get the hang of most things on my own, with just a tiny little push. And besides, this is just a one-time deal, so the life of this database will end when the inventory runs out ( in about 3 - 4 months) With that said, I might as well add that I pretty much figured out how the data is stored, and what kind of fields I need to have in my tables. Relationships is the one thing that I just dont get, which is why I originally asked for a relationships model. But thanks (especially Gina for your links), I'll check them out, maybe I can get what I need to get me going. -- Moe |
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