Split the transaction table into two - one containing just patient info and one containing the transaction info creating a one to many relationship. The patient info only consists of first name, and last name. Currently there's no good primary key field. They have not been using social security number or any field like that to identify a patient. I'm guessing I'll have to use an autonumber field as the way to relate the two tables? Thanks for any help. -----Original Message----- From: Glenda Wells [mailto:gwells@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 8:49 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Access 2002 normalizing a database this list can help suzanne. what exactly are you wanting to do? /g -----Original Message----- From: DiMarco, Suzanne [mailto:SDiMarco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 08:47 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Access 2002 normalizing a database I have a database with a table that consists of patient information and rental transaction information. There's a lot of patient duplication since 1 patient can have many transactions. I want to split the table into two. From articles I've read so far I know I have to run a few queries to accomplish this (I don't know code). I need help with creating the queries. Does anyone know of any articles or web sites that could help me with this. Thank you very much. Suzanne DiMarco ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* _____ =20 << ella for Spam Control >> has removed 13216 Spam messages and set aside 0 Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! www.ellaforspam.com=09 ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************