Posts Tagged ‘access2007’

Microsoft Access and informative id keys

(Programmers usually don’t use Microsoft Access in multi user apps, but it can be handy if you quickly need to setup some single user personal administration database.)
A thing that I find very cumbersome in Access, is the use of surrogate keys (e.g. autonumbering IDs instead of business keys like “name”), because autonumbering keys are not [...]