Mature-age beginner - oh dear!

[Ripplebrook]

Not much to tell really - never used Access (or any other database before) but my workplace decided it was time to limp out of the 1950s!!! Guess who won the hat to learn database use and design, and was tasked with developing a database that should be simple, but in novice hands will surely not be so???

I am currently trying to made sense of a couple of Access manuals, but they seem highly technical, and they are HUGE (and make me feel like a dunce)! I think I get the whole 'normalisation' thing - makes good sense when dealing with loads of data. VB on the other hand .... wow! Very confusing, but I'm determined to have a go. (Overheard a dbase guru warning someone to steer clear of macros, so I haven't opened to that chapter yet.)

My questions will likely have eyes rolling, but I'll be asking them nonetheless!

 

[Galaxiom]

VB on the other hand .... wow! Very confusing, but I'm determined to have a go.

When searching be sure to specify VBA. VB.NET and VBS are different but closely related languages.

Actually VBA itself is extremely simple. All it really involves is putting values into variables, guiding the code execution with tests of those variables and looping to make code execute repeatedly usually while incrementing counters.

The tricky bit is understanding the object models of the objects the code is reading and manipulating.

 

[Cymru]

Don't be discouraged by thick manuals is my advice. I am past Mature as I am retired and have managed a fair bit of VBA programming which I have learnt over this part year or so. You can gets lots of help and sample code to try out and learn from from sites like this and by just using Google. It is amazing how much help there is out there. The important thing is to keep having fun doing it. Cymru

 

[Ripplebrook]

Hello Cymru - thanks for the encouragement, I'll try to take your advie!

Galaxiom - yes, I did mean VBA. Don't know about the simple comment though - I'm still trying to remember where to put the "" in my first (and extremely basic) baby lines of code!!!:banghead:

Never mind - here I go!