Because a correct design is essential to achieving your goals in working with a database, investing the time required to learn the principles of good design makes sense.

In Visio, with the Database Model Diagram template, you can create a new model or reverse engineer an existing database into a model. This article describes how to create a database …

From the Crow’s Foot Database Notation stencil, drag an Entity shape onto the drawing page. Drag another Entity shape onto the drawing page to create a second entity.

Becoming familiar with the tables, forms, queries, and other objects in an Access database can make it easier to perform a wide variety of tasks, such as entering data into a form, adding or …

A Data Model is a new approach for integrating data from multiple tables, effectively building a relational data source inside the Excel workbook. Within Excel, Data Models are used …

With the Reverse Engineer Wizard, you can create a database model from an existing database or an Excel workbook. Database models graphically show the structure of a database so you …

The Database Model Diagram template supports both relational and object-relational database models, so you can work with both simple and composite data types. Simple data types, used …

See Create a database model for more information. Visio also offers a stencil that lets you create a data-flow diagram, which provides information about the outputs and inputs of each entity …

The idea behind multivalued fields is to make it easy to support those instances where you want to select and store more than one choice, without having to create a more advanced database …

Learn how to save Access table relationships schema and other design information about your database in an offline format.