Database Demo

Step 4: Next, the wizard allows you to revise the column names contained in the file you just imported by providing column labels. Because column names must not include spaces or special characters, HostedDatabase.com allows you to provide column labels, which will be viewable to the Data User. This is optional; for example, if you had wanted to add spaces in your column names, you would type the newly revised column label in the spaces provided.

For example, the column names "Title" and "Department" do not have column labels. This means that when a person will look at this database, he will see the words "Title" and "Department" as column headings. The column names "Date," "Company," "Last," "First," and "Phone" have the column labels "Contact Date," "Company Name," "Last Name," "First Name," and "Office Phone" respectively, to add spaces between each word. Thus, when a person looks at this database, he will see these new labels as column headings for the web database.

You also must specify the type of data that you uploaded in each column: Text, Numeric with decimal (such as 2.34 or .09), Numeric without decimal (such as 1,2,3), Money ($12.23), Date (2/3/2001), Hyper-link for web addresss, or E-mail for e-mail addresses. For data of type Text, you must also specify how wide you would like the columns. The number you type in represents the number of characters (typically letters, numerals, and symbols) each line of data could hold. You may want to add to the column widths that the wizard has already calculated, to accommodate the largest value that a column might need in the future. This way, any data that you upload in the future will fit nicely into the columns you specify now.

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