Many-to-Many Relationships in Microsoft Access

Learn how to create a many-to-many relationship in Microsoft Access. This is useful to track relationships between multiple records on BOTH sides of the relationships. For example: students to classes. Each student can be enrolled in multiple classes, and each class can contain multiple students. I'll show you how to set up a Junction Table to track these relationships.

Lucas in Anchorage, Alaska (a Platinum Member) asks: "I need to track employee training, when they took the certification test, and when their certification expires. I need a list of which employees have certifications expiring soon so that I can send them for retesting. I'm having trouble matching up the employee to the certification. Can you help?"

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I'll show you how to build the forms necessary to make working with these relationships easy. We'll go both ways: we'll build a customer form that will show all of their courses in a subform, and then a course subform that will show all of the enrolled customers in the subform. We'll make a double-click event to update the course date, and then an After Update event to set the expiration date equal to a year in the future. Then we'll make a query showing all of the customers who have certifications that are expired or are expiring in the next 30 days.

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Relationships: https://599cd.com/Relationship
After Update: https://599cd.com/AfterUpdate
Dlookup: https://599cd.com/Dlookup
Access Expert 7: https://599cd.com/ACX7
Relationship Seminar: https://599cd.com/RelationshipSeminar
AccessDev.NET: http://AccessDev.NET
Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-to-many_(data_model)

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