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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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