To try and resurrect this moribund forum:
Which guitarist had the biggest affect on you?
For me, Jimi Hendrix (like the whole planet) Hey Joe - It was this that made me decide I wanted to do this - Some 40 years later, still not within a bull's roar
Something like this - although I would highly recommend you follow the Doc's perscription, he is clearly aware of the subject matter and he knows a LOT more about Access than I do
A simplified answer: It sounds very much like the ERP system I used to work with (we made printing inks) either from raw materials our previously blended products)
All products went into an Item table and had various flags set (Purchased/Manufactured etc)
For the Manufactured Items, a bill...
If the DVT table is to be your primary table (The ONE), then yes, other tables must be linked to it
So for patient 201, the foreign key (link number) will always be 201 in the link field in the other tables
The two autonumbers in each table will never always match, it will increment every time there is an entry in that table. By using a foreign key, the second table will always record the autonumber of the primary table - a 1 to many relationship
in the words of James Brown "Where is the one!"
Possibly split the field in 2 and Description and Dimensions and sort by Dimensions or better still instead of a leading 0, add a space, it will sort and look correctly