You can now see a little key icon that will show up next to that field. We now need to make ProjectID a primary key for this table, so let us select ProjectID and click on Primary Key option in the ribbon. In this view, you can see the field name and data type side by side.
In the tables group, click on Table and you can see this looks completely different from the Datasheet View. These tables will store some of the information for various book projects. We will be creating the following fields in this table. We will now create another table using the Table Design View. Table Design ViewĪs we have already created one table using Datasheet View. Let us click Ok and you will see your table in the navigation pane. You will now see the Save As dialog box, where you can enter a table name for the table.Įnter the name of your table in the Table Name field. Once all the fields are added, click the Save icon.
Similarly, add all the required fields as shown in the following screenshot. When you choose short text, Access will then highlight that field name automatically and all you have to do is type the field name. Let us now add some more fields by clicking on click to add.Ĭhoose Short Text as the field. This is automatically set to auto number so we don't really need to change the data type. We now have our employee ID field with the caption Employee ID. Enter the other optional information if you want and click Ok. This is an Employee table and this will be the unique identifier for our employees.Ĭlick on the Name & Caption option in the Ribbon and you will see the following dialog box.Ĭhange the name of this field to EmployeeID to make it more specific to this table. The ID field has already been created and we now want to rename it to suit our conditions. The ID which is an AutoNumber field acts as our unique identifier and is the primary key for this table. Let us now go to the Field tab and you will see that it is also automatically created. We created the database and then Access automatically opened up this table-one-datasheet view for a table. Let us now have short text as the data type for all these fields and open a blank database in Access. Let us try and create the first table that will store the basic contact information concerning the employees as shown in the following table − Field Name Before you create tables, carefully consider your requirements and determine all the tables that you need. Because other database objects depend so heavily on tables, you should always start your design of a database by creating all of its tables and then creating any other object. When you create a database, you store your data in tables.
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