STILL bad. NOT normalized. (lol)
Coins should be in a child table of Students as follows (by the way, I like the StudName field...could i be a StudName?)
Students: StudentID,StudName
StCoins: StudentID,Coins,Qty
You would convert by scanning through the original table, create parent Students records and child StCoins record.
>One friend ask me how to convert the non-normalize dbf to standard!
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>badtable:
>
>StudentID StudName Coins Qty
>-----------------------------------------
>PJ00001 May 5_Dollar 10
>PJ00001 May 2_Dollar 4
>PJ00002 John 10_Dollar 6
>PJ00002 John 2_Dollar 5
>PJ00002 John 1_Dollar 3
>PJ00003 Peter 5_Dollar 7
>PJ00003 Peter 1_Dollar 15
>PJ00004 Susan 10_Dollar 2
>PJ00004 Susan 5_Dollar 1
>...
>
>
>GoodTable:
>
>StudentID StudName 1_Dollar 2_Dollar 5_Dollar 10_Dollar
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>PJ00001 May 0 4 10 0
>PJ00002 John 3 5 0 6
>PJ00003 Peter 15 0 7 0
>PJ00004 Susan 0 0 1 2
>........
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>For Report, simply use group can do it, but how to change the table
>into this structure na!?
>
>Thanks!
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