First of all hi everyone, that's my first post in the forum after having read it for a while.
I am preparing a little project for uni, I need to provide and build a db with Access 2003 and then build a little
vb.net 2005 project to manage data.
Here is the topic. there is a small library that could lend books,magazine,videos
I read about inheritance so, one solutions I came up with is creating a Item table with common fields and three sub tables for books, magazines and videos. Now I joined these three tables by linking 1:1 with the PK of the Item table. I can't figure out how then to simple add a new book, new magazine and new videos. I know I could put all the fields in a table to make things easier, but I think that my solution is more scalable and it will allow to have for example other kind of items in the future. I am stubborn and I want to try to make it work, can anyone give me an help.
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Maybe if someone could send me a little db in Access 2003 with just a couple of fields for each sub table will help me to try these solutions
Please this stuff is quite urgent, all the help is appreciate