- Introduction
- Creating a Database
- Creating a Database Table
- Setting the Primary Key for Your Table
- Manually Adding Data to Your Table
- Outline for the Remaining Tutorials
Manually Adding Data to Your Table
Although most of the time our GuestBook table will programmatically get its information from the user via an HTML form, it's a relatively straightforward matter for us to manually add information to the table as well.
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Double-click the GuestBook icon in the start window. Access displays the GuestBook table, allowing you to manually enter information in the table (see Figure 26).
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Enter at least four lines of data with various values. Better yet, enter the same values as shown in Figure 26.
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Figure 26 Manually entering information into the GuestBook table.
Notice that the fields with default values—age (0), dateposted (current time), hideEmail (checked), and gender (female)—have a default value filled in. You can override the default values by typing over them.
Congratulations! You've just created your first table and filled it in with data. In terms of the big picture, you know the info shown in Figure 27.
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Figure 27 What you know of the big picture: databases.