Chapter 5
Table Tune-Ups
IN THIS CHAPTER
Identifying your records uniquely with a primary key
Understanding relationships
Building relationships between your tables
Indexing for faster queries
Life in today’s world is all about doing things faster and more efficiently to increase productivity. Isn’t that what your life is about? Oh, you have a life outside your work, too? (What a concept.) Maybe you have a relationship? This chapter is about making your databases faster and about building good relationships (the database kind, not the human kind!).
As with any good relationship, the end result is often harmony and happiness. Making your Access tables work well together will make things so much easier in so many ways as you move on to build your queries, forms, and reports. The good news is that building relationships in Access takes a lot less time than building human relationships.
How can you make Access work faster and more efficiently? With key fields and indexes, that’s how! Each table should have that one special field assigned as a primary key. A primary key prevents duplicate ...
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