John Colby
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu May 8 09:51:16 CDT 2003
Or internationalization!!! <grin> John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of William Hindman Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 10:41 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] Insert record into fake group "I'm one but I don't beat" ...just don't mention Novell anywhere within a parsec of gustav! :)))))) William Hindman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Insert record into fake group > Hi Ervin > > Before you'll get beaten by the normalization gurus of the list (I'm > one but I don't beat) you should consider to split those sort orders > out to separate (numeric) fields. In the long run I'm convinced it'll > save you a lot of trouble. > > /gustav > > > >> Why not simply update the SchoolOrder: > > > I think you were right that sometimes I have to update the field > > SchoolOrder. If I use John's system(and I think I will) where the > > SchoolOrder consist from 2 parts: "Group.OrderInGroup" everything is ok, > > except when arise a new group which have to shift the existing groups or > > orders... > > > I have to admit that part "Group" here means City, the part "OrderInGroup" > > is order within a group(within a city) and the field SchoolOrder is here to > > sort schools in order how will salesperson visit them. > > E.g. when new first group arise then each Group have to be incremented. The > > same is for the part OrderInGroup: e.g. when arise new first in some group > > then the part OrderInGroup have to be incremented... > > > Thanks anyway, I'll try to make some update queries tomorrow. > > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com