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Caution

As you create a database, you should save your work regularly.

This means more than just saving what you have just created.

You must save the whole database as well.

For example, when you create your first table, you must save it

before you can close it. If you look at the Save icon in the

Standard toolbar at the top after closing the table, it will be

active. Click the Save icon, and this icon will be grayed out

again. Not only the table has been saved, but it also been made

a part of the database.

Creating database tables

Note

In a database, a table stores information for a group of things we

call fields. For example, a table might hold an address book, a

stock list, a phone book or a price list. A database can have from

one to several tables.

To work with tables, click the

Tables

icon in the

Database

list, or use

Alt+a

. The three tasks that you can perform on a table are in the

Task

list (see Figure 176).

Figure 176: Creating tables

Using the Wizard to create a table

Caution

Every table requires a

Primary key field

. (What this field does

will be explained later.) We will use this field to number our

entries and want that number to automatically increase as we

add each entry.

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