Bind with an intermediate table

[Richard Blythe]

I am in the proccess of writing a small membership program and all the info is being stored in an MS Access database. I've gotten stumped on coding the datagridview's "DataRelation" object because I'm having to code through three table levels. To explain, I want to create families (Father, Mother, Children) and link them through the DataGridview. I have a master table called "tblFamilyNames" that holds the "primary key" and anniversary date. I then have a table called tblFamilyDetails. It links the family(Father, Mother, Children) together by storing the primary key value from tblFamilyNames in a column called "intFamilyID". In tblFamilyDetails, there is a column: "intMemberID" that points to a record in the third table: tblMembers". My question is, how do I bind the first table: "tblFamilyDetails" with the third table: "tblMembers" so that the user can see the member's info without seeing the intermediate table: "tblFamilyDetails"? may your code be error free

[Humble Programmer]

This may not be the answer that you're expecting, but have you considered using Views to de-normalize the data? It sounds like you could create a "Family" view that is an INNER JOIN of tblFamilyNames and tblFamilyDetails. This could then be JOINed to tblMembers to give you a single unified view of the data.

Cheers! Humble Programmer ,,,^..^,,,