in reply to OT: updating database question
With the effort you have gone to to normalise your data, I dont think that the laziness of rewriting your data each time is good laziness. It could indeed be dangerous - because a user could accidentally change the data on the form and submit an error.
By rearranging your form so that people input changes only, perhaps by using a dropdown to select the old name and new qualification, or a text box to enter a new name and a new qualification.
If you are using SQL then you could update it will an UPDATE query something like
UPDATE person_qual SET qual = (SELECT id FROM qual_id WHERE qual = 'MA') WHERE person IN (SELECT id FROM name_id WHERE name = 'Alice');
If you are manually implementing your own database with text files, you will probably have to rewrite the file each time, though you could perhaps just append a line each time - thus allowing you to undo changes easily.
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