Crystal Reports handles nulls, or completely unfilled fields, in a particular way. And it’s very important that anyone using the program understands the details clearly. A null, in Crystal’s view, is a database field which never had anything in it, and doesn’t now. A real-life …
One of the more abstruse points of procedure in Access involves the three so-called normal forms. What, exactly, are they? If you think “guidelines”, or “protocols”, you’d be in the ballpark. When building a database, especially a relational database, there are some “streamlinings” which allow …
The good news is, the import and export processes in Access—and in general—are two sides of the same coin. And there really isn’t any bad news, other than making sure the data are set up in a way that Access can understand—namely, something row-and-column-ish when …
When setting up reports in Access, we’re trying to learn something which wasn’t in the original data. Something calculated, derived, or otherwise figured out from the existing information. It’s fairly easy to do, though there are a few steps. After determining the requirement—a sales tax …