Hi,

I am a new member. I've fiddled around with database software for many years, but never got serious about learning how to use this powerful tool well or correctly. I'm never going to be a professional database programmer, but I do have a number of personal applications that would be much better implemented in a database than in Excel or Word, as I am doing now.

I have Office 2007 with Access.

My first question has to do with proper design procedures. Is this a good way to approach a new application:

  1. Decide what functions the application will perform. Make a list of the tasks that I will want it to be able to complete.
  2. Lay out the tables. Identify all of the data elements and organize them into non-redundant (normalized) tables.
  3. Design the forms.
  4. Start coding.


Comments?