MS Access

[Netraider]

I have an Access Table with a field listing files, and another field listing users. I want to split the table into multiple tables so Ican set up many to many relationships between them. The idea being that a file has many users and a user has many files.

Is this a simple thing to? I am no access expert.

[Olly]

I have an Access Table with a field listing files, and another field listing users. I want to split the table into multiple tables so Ican set up many to many relationships between them. The idea being that a file has many users and a user has many files.

Is this a simple thing to? I am no access expert.

Very simple - copy one column of your table, click create new table then paste. You'll need to add a primary key so add another column "ID" or whatever and set that to autonumber. Same for users and then create a new table defining the relationships

[mudskipper]

Easy peasy. I'm free next Thursday. £400.

[eek]

Easy peasy. I'm free next Thursday. £400.

Nah. Sounds like a few hours 1 evening. Give me a spec and I'll have it done tomorrow.

Just off to elance to find someone....

[mudskipper]

Nah. Sounds like a few hours 1 evening. Give me a spec and I'll have it done tomorrow.

Just off to elance to find someone....

Creating tables and moving data, easy.

Presumably something is querying the tables - forms/reports....?

[doodab]

Presumably you have multiple entries per user and multiple entries per file in the existing table and you want the new tables to have one entry per user and one per file?

I have no idea how to use access, can you migrate it to SQL express while you are at it?

[vetran]

you can do it all in access (it can be the same as in excel) but you may be more at home in excel

Creating a new Access database from an Excel spreadsheet - Access - Office.com


manipulate in excel and copy / export to access.

agree if more than a couple users using it go SQL!