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Say What, Now?

Most offices enter customer and product information separately. There may be a spreadsheet for the customers (who) and another spreadsheet for the products (what). In our sample business the customers rent movies, so there will be a list of movies.

 

Who Bought What?

A receipt lists who bought what.

Question: how do you show that in Excel?

 

A spreadsheet can record one-to-one relationships. Picture the receipt spreadsheet. Each row would have one answer in each column: receipt number, date, customer, movie, price. So far, so good.

 

However one customer may get many movies, say 3 or 5 titles. At some point you need to document that many customers bought many products on many days.

 

Databases do many-to-many relationships.

 

Keep going, please...

Microsoft Excel: Sample Customer and Movie Data

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