Elara cracked her knuckles. "Time for a split."

At 2:00 AM, she built the interface. She used the to create a main form based on tbl_Donors and a subform based on tbl_Donations . Now, when she scrolled through a donor, all their past donations appeared instantly in a tidy datasheet below.

She checked the box. This was the soul of 7.3.9. It meant Access would never let her create an orphan record—a donation with no donor. It was a promise of order.

By midnight, she had five lonely tables: Donors, Events, Volunteers, Inventory, and Pledges. They sat there, disconnected islands of data.

The next morning, Marcus walked by. "You look terrible. Did you fix the..."

"Step one," she read aloud, "identify your entities."