Filemaker Pro 9 04

Question 1

1. Ch 3. p 92.

What is the foundation of a DB?

Answer 1

TABLES. Everything else in a db works IN SERVICE OF THE TABLES IN SOME WAY.

Question 2

2. What extension does FM Pro 9 have?

Answer 2

.fp7
It means that people with versions 7 or 8 can use version 9 files, although some of the new features won’t work for them.

Question 3

3. What is a FIELD TYPE?

Answer 3

It determines what kind of information the field holds.

Question 4

4. What are the different types of fields?

Answer 4

text
number
date
time
timestamp
container
calculation & summary

Question 5

5. How much info can a TEXT field hold?

Answer 5

2 gigs

Question 6

6. When should you use a NUMBER field?

Answer 6

only when you plan to perform MATH with it. For Zip codes and phone numbers use TEXT fields.

Question 7

7. A TIME field can serve two purposes. What are they?

Answer 7

You can enter a time of day (3:37pm) or a DURATION (27:35:45).

Question 8

8. How do you apply a TIME FORMAT to the TIME FIELDS (p 253)?

Answer 8

FORMAT–>TIME

Question 9

9. When entering TIME VALUES, you always start with:

Answer 9

HOURS, i.e., 12 minutes 47 seconds is entered as 00:12:34