Recent content by Stephen Hard

The corrected link was extremely helpful.

Thanks Pat for the information. The first link is not working. The other two helped me to understand relational and flat file databases, but did not solve my problem. The problem I have is that every bit of data to be entered is unique. I could arbitrarily break the one table into several and...

Not only do I not know what "normalization" refers to, what is a ppl? Also, it seems to me that the type of table I need for my data entry requires a one to many relationship (each question [field] entering data into a large number of records). I do not understand how each question can be a...

Wayne, Thanks for the lead. I do not think there is much I can do about my table design. There is a field for the answer to every question. There are about sixty questions. Most of these require the selection of one out of five possible answers (a Likert scale). So I have sixty option groups...

I am developing a survey to be administered online. There are way too many controls to fit on a single form, so I created multiple forms each associated with part of the survey. The problem is that when I move from form to form the entered data is sent to a new record. How can I associate the...