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
For many of us, especially at work, it’s all about doing things faster and more efficiently to increase productivity. We sometimes worry about this in our personal lives, too. From getting stuff done around the house to managing our time with our families, friends, and maybe a little time for yourself, it’s all about relationships. And databases are no different — you might even say they can be a metaphor for relating different parts of your life to make them work better together. In this chapter, you learn how to set up relationships between your tables to help them — and the data within them — work better together.
Making your Access tables work well together will make things so much easier in so many ways — including how you design and build your queries, forms, and reports — and how you make your data more useful and visible through them.
So, how can you make Access more “relatable” and ...
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