2007 Microsoft® Office System Inside Out

Defining Relationships

After you have defined two or more related tables, you should tell Access 2007 how the tables are related. You do this so that Access 2007 will be able to link all your tables when you need to use them in queries, forms, or reports.

Thus far in this chapter, you have seen how to build the main subject tables of the Contact Tracking database—Companies, Contacts, and Products. Before we define the relationships in this sample database, you need to create a couple of linking tables that define the many-to-many relationships between the Companies and Contacts tables and between the Products and Contacts tables. Table 27-9 shows you the fields you need for the Company Contacts table that forms the "glue" between the Companies ...