Customers Database

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance



I am trying to rebuild my database because I encountered a design flaw. Any
advice on how I should structure the database. The background is as follows:
Simple customer database, with acct numbers, and standard customer
information. Monthly orders, different invoice numbers, different product
descriptions. I need to design a simple database where I can append the new
excel spreadsheet to the table monthly which contains all customer
information for that month and accounting can continue to process payments as
they are received. Sometimes there will be duplicate accounts for the next
month. Or they may be new accounts. I want to keep it simple (one table if
possible) so that I can do an append each month. I know it's bad database
design to do that but that's the only way I can maintain the database, unless
someone has a better idea. I also need the database to list the order
history per account number so that accounting can apply payments to each
invoice but clicking on an apply payment button. I have designed all that
already and its function but I now have to redo the design. I hope that was
clear enough.

--
Message posted via http://www.accessmonster.com

.



Relevant Pages

  • C# programmer looking for a job
    ... Software Development including Desktop, Client/Server and Database ... Practical skills in object oriented design and design patterns ... XML, Oracle, CVS, VSS, Delphi, bug tracking. ... Developed in Delphi5; ...
    (misc.immigration.usa)
  • Re: O/R Mapper
    ... | - create E/R model from niam model ... classes that contain, not only data, but also functionality as OO design is ... a database where they do not exist in the object model is corrupting the ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp)
  • Re: Date range on reports
    ... > box to your report with a control source like: ... >> In the Database window (Database window: The window that appears when you ... >> In the New Form dialog box, click Design View, and click OK. ... >> Begin by clicking Macro Names to display the Macro Name column. ...
    (microsoft.public.access.reports)
  • Re: teaching relational basics to people, questions
    ... the number of tables in the design, and think that conflating multiple fact ... metadata heaven where we have all of the formal semantics of our data ... model neatly encoded within the database catalog, and further, we have ... So I think this thing is mostly about UI design and formal conceptual ...
    (comp.databases.theory)
  • Re: limit of lines?
    ... And this is the fundamental mistake in your design. ... a objects from a database, this usually leads to very poor design. ... Framework in which all properties are backed, not by a simple field, but by ... we have major size projects that use the Delphi template ...
    (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)