July 2010
Beginner
352 pages
8h 19m
English
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5 Creating Your Own Databases and Tables
Using Access 2010 you can create your own databases and tables.
It is useful to think of the process of table design as being similar to the process of building a foundation for a house. Just as a house with a faulty foundation will fall over, an application with a poor table design will be difficult to build, maintain, and use. This chapter covers all the ins and outs of table design in Access 2010. After reading this chapter, you will be ready to build the other components of an application, knowing that the tables you design provide the application with a strong foundation.
Types of Databases Available
Access 2010 sports two types of databases: a standard database, and a web database. The standard database ...