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Creating Tables in Design View
Finally Michael begins to build the tables in MS Access.
- Click New on the database toolbar.
- Click Blank database.
- Specify the name and click create.
- A blank database opens.
- Create database objects like tables, forms etc.
- Select design view.
- Enter the fields and the data types for the employee table.
- Save the employee table as tb:employee
- Similarly type in the fields for the job table.
- Set the job code data type to Auto number and make it the primary key.
- Save as tb:job
- For the Contact and skills table there will be no primary key.However, the social security number will be indexed with no duplicates.
- Save the tables as tb:contact and tb:skills.