Microsoft Access 2013 Inside Out

Moving fields

You might want to move a field in a table definition for a number of reasons. Perhaps you made an error as you entered or changed the information in a table, or perhaps you’ve discovered that you’re using some fields you defined at the end of a table quite frequently in forms or reports, in which case it would be easier to find and work with those fields if they were nearer the beginning of your table definition.

INSIDE OUT: How important is the sequence of fields in your table?

The actual sequence of field definitions in a table is not all that important. In the relational database model, there really is no defined sequence of fields in a row or rows in a table. Access, like most databases that implement the relational model, does ...