RE: Access database question: how to structure a link between tw o tables

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Watts
i've created a database to handle an insurance form which deals with the insurance of money. it has a number of different tables such as 'cust', which lists details of customers, 'prem', which lists details of where the money is stored, and 'safe' which lists details of the safes in

RE: Access database question: how to structure a link between tw o tables

2001-05-14 Thread Braver, Ben
Hi Hubert, If I understand you correctly, you have a many-to-many relationship. Another example of this is college classes and students -- a student may be enrolled in a number of classes a class has a number of students enrolled so you have many-to-many, unlike say an invoice which is

Re: Access database question: how to structure a link between tw o tables

2001-05-14 Thread stas
Also, don't confuse a safe type - such as a model designation, with a safe serial number. You would use a safe's serial number as a primary key in the safe table, as well as a foreign key in the intersection table Dave described below. To figure out what type of safe it is, you would need another