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From: Jazz on 27 Dec 2009 18:30 I am creating a database to track what I spend my money on. I am planning to include the following fields in my table. Expense ID Expense Category Purchase date Expense Item Description Projected Cost Actual Cost Amount Saved Comments Considering my intention to track what I spend my money on,what do you think of my table design? Would you recommend different field names, additional field names, or keep the ones I have?
From: Steve on 27 Dec 2009 18:57 Hello Jazz, Consider adding an expense category table. You probably spend your money repeatedly on many of the same things such as electric, gas, telephone, gasoline, etc so consider adding an expense item table. You also might consider having an expense table and an expense detail table. With this in mind you would have the following tables design: TblExpenseCategory ExpenseCategoryID ExpenseCategory TblExpenseItem ExpenseItemID ExpenseCategoryID ExpenseItem TblExpense ExpenseID ExpenseDate Comments TblExpenseDetail ExpenseDetailID ExpenseID ExpenseItemID Projected Cost Actual Cost Amount Saved Steve santus(a)penn.com "Jazz" <Jazz(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8E948DBC-C44D-4DE5-9D6E-BA2E0C7B939C(a)microsoft.com... >I am creating a database to track what I spend my money on. I am planning >to > include the following fields in my table. > > Expense ID > Expense Category > Purchase date > Expense Item Description > Projected Cost > Actual Cost > Amount Saved > Comments > > Considering my intention to track what I spend my money on,what do you > think > of my table design? Would you recommend different field names, additional > field names, or keep the ones I have? >
From: Duane Hookom on 27 Dec 2009 19:15 First, I would remove all spaces from field names. The AmountSaved I expect is the difference between the ProjectedCost and ActualCost so there is no reason to create this field and/or save the value. I use a naming convention that would create a table like: tblExpenses =============== expExpID expExCID link to tblExpenseCategories.ecaExCID expDate expItem expProjectedCost expActualCost expComments tblExpenseCategories ================== excExCID autonumber primary key excTitle name of category like "Rent","Groceries","Entertainment", "Beer" -- Duane Hookom Microsoft Access MVP "Jazz" wrote: > I am creating a database to track what I spend my money on. I am planning to > include the following fields in my table. > > Expense ID > Expense Category > Purchase date > Expense Item Description > Projected Cost > Actual Cost > Amount Saved > Comments > > Considering my intention to track what I spend my money on,what do you think > of my table design? Would you recommend different field names, additional > field names, or keep the ones I have? >
From: Steve on 27 Dec 2009 19:25 I meant Projected Cost and Actual Cost not to have spaces! I also agree with Duane that you don't need Amount Saved! Steve "Steve" <notmyemail(a)address.com> wrote in message news:%23Y5lTB1hKHA.5604(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hello Jazz, > > Consider adding an expense category table. You probably spend your money > repeatedly on many of the same things such as electric, gas, telephone, > gasoline, etc so consider adding an expense item table. You also might > consider having an expense table and an expense detail table. With this in > mind you would have the following tables design: > > TblExpenseCategory > ExpenseCategoryID > ExpenseCategory > > TblExpenseItem > ExpenseItemID > ExpenseCategoryID > ExpenseItem > > TblExpense > ExpenseID > ExpenseDate > Comments > > TblExpenseDetail > ExpenseDetailID > ExpenseID > ExpenseItemID > Projected Cost > Actual Cost > Amount Saved > > Steve > santus(a)penn.com > > > "Jazz" <Jazz(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:8E948DBC-C44D-4DE5-9D6E-BA2E0C7B939C(a)microsoft.com... >>I am creating a database to track what I spend my money on. I am planning >>to >> include the following fields in my table. >> >> Expense ID >> Expense Category >> Purchase date >> Expense Item Description >> Projected Cost >> Actual Cost >> Amount Saved >> Comments >> >> Considering my intention to track what I spend my money on,what do you >> think >> of my table design? Would you recommend different field names, >> additional >> field names, or keep the ones I have? >> > >
From: Jazz on 27 Dec 2009 21:57
Hi Duane, This is fabulous advice. Thank you for your input. I may have questions down the road but this will definitely help me to get started. Thanks a million! "Duane Hookom" wrote: > First, I would remove all spaces from field names. The AmountSaved I expect > is the difference between the ProjectedCost and ActualCost so there is no > reason to create this field and/or save the value. > > I use a naming convention that would create a table like: > tblExpenses > =============== > expExpID > expExCID link to tblExpenseCategories.ecaExCID > expDate > expItem > expProjectedCost > expActualCost > expComments > > tblExpenseCategories > ================== > excExCID autonumber primary key > excTitle name of category like "Rent","Groceries","Entertainment", "Beer" > -- > Duane Hookom > Microsoft Access MVP > > > "Jazz" wrote: > > > I am creating a database to track what I spend my money on. I am planning to > > include the following fields in my table. > > > > Expense ID > > Expense Category > > Purchase date > > Expense Item Description > > Projected Cost > > Actual Cost > > Amount Saved > > Comments > > > > Considering my intention to track what I spend my money on,what do you think > > of my table design? Would you recommend different field names, additional > > field names, or keep the ones I have? > > |