Chapter 7. Working with Relationships
Relationships Graphs and ERDs
Chapter 5, “Relational Database Design,” outlined some database theory that helps produce an ERD—an entity-relationship diagram that shows the fundamental building blocks of a database system and the ways in which they relate. In Chapter 6, “Working with Multiple Tables,” we showed how to use FileMaker’s relationship tools to turn an ERD into a working FileMaker database. This might mislead you into thinking that the Relationships Graph is really the same thing as an ERD, and that the relationships you build there match one-to-one with the relationships you sketch out on your ERD.
In fact, there’s a lot more to relationships in FileMaker. The Relationships ...
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