Database Structure

Redundancy

The Plots table in our version of the Portal database violates one of the major rules of database structure (the whole gosh dang table is redundant for Pete’s sake!). Figure out a better design using one table to link each plot number to a single experiemental code (save this as Plots - Single Code) and a second table that includes various versions of each type of code (save this as Experiments). It is probably easiest to restructure the table by hand in a spreadsheet and then import the new tables into Access, but if you’re feeling bold you could do the restructuring using a programming language of your choice or directly inside of Access.

Using your new plot related tables write a query that determines the Plot Type Description and the number of plots of each type. Save this as Number of Plots by Treatment.