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[jillnoble]

Good morning to you all, how to describe myself? Not really sure. I just getting a little excited about DB's, excel etc and nice to know I'm not on my own! I am very much self taught and ended up building a database for the company I work for (when the current one they had paid for many years before no longer met requirements and could not be manipulated into doing so!) including tables, forms, queries, reports and macros (ish!) but all a bit on the hop and all with pinching bits off the internet and the very basic knowledge I have gained over the years. I have had no training but have got by so far. I've never joined a forum before and it scares me a little as over the years I've build my database, I've probably not done this the way I should've if I was a proper programmer!

 

[Jon]

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[jdraw]

Welcome to AWF!

 

[theDBguy]

Hi. Welcome to AWF!

 

[The_Doc_Man]

If you are new to the world of databases, the first thing you should study is database normalization. In a world of relational databases, if you are not comfortable with how to normalize - and how to recognize the NEED to normalize - then databases will be awkward, ugly things that you can turn into more graceful things. If you HAVE studied normalization, then great!

 

[Isaac]

Welcome to AWF! Thanks for sharing a bit about your background, we are all learning.

+1 for what The Doc Man mentioned. Every time you make a database, or add thereto, the "foundation" is the tables. Get those right and the rest just happens so naturally.

It's hard sometimes, I know, because business partners go the opposite direction - they start at "what will we need to report on?" and pretty much stop there.

Enjoy the forums and good to have you.

 

[jillnoble]

Thank you for the welcome, Luckily, I 'think' my tables are all good and always start there before going onto creating any new forms, reports etc. Although, I seem to have committed a cardinal sin by using spaces in my field names ! Hasn't got me into too much trouble so far but I do now realise why it would've been easier not too!

 

[Dreamweaver]

Hi welcome aboard