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    find duplicates - sort of

    duh! i must've been having a brain fart...a sub-select...geez! thanks, i got it.. and we don't really have duplicates either.....they are different, just trying to find out entries that are essentially the same.... thanks again for your help...
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    find duplicates - sort of

    well, it's not that easy...i was hoping to avoid this part, but here goes...we are using access as a frontend to sql server and thus do not have that capability...i have to enter the query manually...
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    find duplicates - sort of

    say i have a table called tblEmployees and i want to find people who have the same name but different employee numbers, can that be done with a query or will that require VBA code? i won't know the names ahead of time, i don't know who has the same name. for example, columns: first_name...
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    Order By property not working

    when i remove DESC it doesn't sort it any longer...then i sort it myself and it adds the DESC back like it had been previously....
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    Order By property not working

    i have two forms - frmOne and frmTwo. frmOne opens frmTwo with this code: intVar = Me!l_id intRoom = Me!l_room stDocName = "l_surveys" stLinkCriteria = "[l_id]=" & "'" & intVar & "'" DoCmd.OpenForm stDocName, , , stLinkCriteria on frmTwo i have the property for Order By set to...
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    open form while closing form

    i see my mistake....thanks!
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    open form while closing form

    this has to be simple but i can't get it to work... i have a selection form (frmSelection) with a combo box...the user makes a selection from the combo box and based on that selection another form opens when they click next...i have a Select Case under cmdNext_Click()..here's a sample of what...
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    updating record via form

    nevermind...i'm an idiot....i should only modify one thing at a time so as to not confuse me...it works now...thanks for your assistance...
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    updating record via form

    John: whew, we had an emergency and i've been out...i looked at your example but there is one major difference between your example and my form: my form is based on a query, and yours is based on a table... the way the form works is when it is loaded it asks for a Building# (as a filter...
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    updating record via form

    John - sorry for the delay, i've been out of the office...i'll give that a look and compare to my setup and report back... thanks!
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    updating record via form

    on my form i have a few radio buttons, check boxes, text fields and combo boxes. i am able to change and update all fields except combo boxes. it modifies the wrong table... combo_table ------------ id value 1 house 2 school 3 work if on my form the combo box for a specific...
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    updating record via form help

    i have a form whose record source is a query...the problem i am running into updating the form once a record has been selected...the fields that give me issues relate to fields who utilize combo boxes...i'll give more detail here, using a condensed version of my form: SELECT...
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    number of records?

    cannot print currentdb.name either (same as db.name)....it says "item not found in collection" when i use dbengine(0)(0).....i guess i'll try to move it to another form and module and try it from there....
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    number of records?

    in the immediate window i cannot get it to print the db name...if i put a breakpoint at rst = db.openrecordset(stSQL) and check out what db is...in the code window it says "db = nothing" when i hover over it...in the immediate window it says "db.name = <Objec variable or With block variable not...
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    number of records?

    sorry...yes, it does compile correctly...i guess i'll have to start simpler and work my way up... any idea on the run-time error message? what it means, how to correct it, etc?
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