Recent content by starbuckadale

Wow, that really does. Thanks, Mark! I read about a million tutorials and although I'm not exactly a stranger to intractable texts, the info just wasn't translating into real life sense. I'll probably be back with more questions later but you've given me something to think about. So I will want...

Hi Mark, thanks for your help. I know what database normalisation is, in fact my original database attempted linked fields to avoid doubled info. I'm just ...doing it wrong. I'm really struggling to find instructions/explanations that I know are right for me, because I'm such a n00b I'm not...

I've read about many to many relationships and junction tables. The primary key on each table is the children's numbers at the moment, because I want each child to have the same ID number on each table. (Does that make logical sense? I'm under the impression that that's necessary, but I could be...

Hi, I'm a newly qualified teacher who's school laptop has a copy of Access 2007-10 on it. The last time I used Access, it was 15 years ago at school and I remember nothing. When I was training, my mentor recommended Access as a great way of tracking student progress and I've attempted to build a...

I'm your classic n00b who's spent so long reading access tutorials that don't quite tell her to do what she's trying to do and had a huge headache trying to search for something that she doesn't have the correct language to accurately describe that she gave up and came to the place where the...