How to populate many-to-many

From: <dmeng_at_focal.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 08:13:31 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00465FBA.20020521081331@fatcity.com>

I am designing a database our software/hardware inventory and there is a many-to-many relationship between 'server' and 'software' table. So I created an association table between them to resolve this. While I believe this is the right thing to do, I am wondering how we are going to populate this association table.
It seems to me that we have to create a separate screen for this table to have the users manually enter the data. Right now this table has only three columns - ( server_software_id, server_id, software_id ). Bonus question - if we are going to use Access to manually enter data, is there any way we can avoid entering the raw numbers ( the association table columns are all numeric ). I remember with Oracle Forms you can set up some kind of drop down list where you pick the text value and the ids get populated behind the scene. I am not a fan of Access, can we do something similar?

TIA Dennis Meng
Database Administrator
Focal Communications Corp.

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