Thank you making that clearer for me :)
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I have a problem in Access2000 in retrieving the following; I am trying to get access to give me a total for the field [ContractTotal] in the [PaymentReceivedTable] as well as the fields stated in the below clause. In the [InsertDetailsTable] there is seperate entries for each item that is from the same contract. If customer purchased 10 items it wants to give me that customers total on the contract multiplied by ten. The distinct fields are [CustomerID] and [InsertNum] the problem is that those fields are ONLY distinct in every table BUT the [InsertContractDetailsTabl
SELECT AccessMainTable.RepLastNam
FROM PaymentReceivedTable) as abc, (AccessMainTable INNER JOIN InsertContractDetailTable ON (AccessMainTable.InsertNum
WHERE (((AccessMainTable.MasterD
GROUP BY AccessMainTable.RepLastNam
Thanks in advance,
Vera Palmeri
Business Accounts
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by: PWinterPosted on 2004-01-26 at 17:11:20ID: 10205745
Hi.
BCNF also called 3 1/2 NF. It is a little bit more restrictive than 3NF - it requires every determinant to be a candidate key. In other words, dependencies within a key must be dependent on the key.
4NF only applies when there are one-to-many or many-to-many relationships: an entity is in 4NF if all dependencies are result of keys.
Good Luck,
PW