Hi there
I'm creating a database to track information about components bought by the engineering company I work for. These requirements are generally sent out as excel spreadsheets, completed and then returned. I've written a db which can read the responses in and process with queries in what is I guess the normal way...
Up until now, these SS's have consisted of four columns following a standard format, "Item Number", "Feature", "Requirement" and "Response" which maps quite nicely as Fields in a table...
Now, I've been given an SS which doesn't have anything like such a neat structure. There are items which require responses based on a mixed number (columns) of conditions.
Mycurrent thinking is that the best way forward is to produce a number of tables relating to this component each neatly mapping columns to a field. But if so then I lose the overall "neatness" that each table refers to a particular requirements _document_. Does anyone have any suggestions of how I might "spoof" that a series of tables (of dissimilar structure) are a single pseudo-table?
Am I talking gibberish?
Many thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Blue Skies
j.
I'm creating a database to track information about components bought by the engineering company I work for. These requirements are generally sent out as excel spreadsheets, completed and then returned. I've written a db which can read the responses in and process with queries in what is I guess the normal way...
Up until now, these SS's have consisted of four columns following a standard format, "Item Number", "Feature", "Requirement" and "Response" which maps quite nicely as Fields in a table...
Now, I've been given an SS which doesn't have anything like such a neat structure. There are items which require responses based on a mixed number (columns) of conditions.
Mycurrent thinking is that the best way forward is to produce a number of tables relating to this component each neatly mapping columns to a field. But if so then I lose the overall "neatness" that each table refers to a particular requirements _document_. Does anyone have any suggestions of how I might "spoof" that a series of tables (of dissimilar structure) are a single pseudo-table?
Am I talking gibberish?
Many thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Blue Skies
j.
