If you have experience using Microsoft Access, Oracle, Visual Basic, dBase, or other database programs, you can apply this knowledge directly to Satellite Forms. If you haven't ever worked with relational databases before, don't worry. The concepts are not difficult. Skimming the introductory chapter of a book at your local bookstore should do the trick. Briefly, relational databases store data in objects called tables.
Tables manage data in rows and columns, similar to spreadsheets.
The Orders table might contain columns for Order Number, Order Date, and Purchase Order Number. Each row, or record, of the Orders table contains information about an individual order. Certain columns relate information from one table to another. For example, the Orders table tracks the customer who placed an order. Doing this saves space because references are typically numbers rather than long names.