Recent content by DickyP

Sorry to take so long to respond but I realize I will have to describe the basic manner in which all my databases work and I'm trying to devise a reply that is shorter than War & Peace. Wii reply in full in due course.

Actually I find having a 'flag' on a record useful quite regularly and it allows extra flexibility in my search dialogs. As for resetting I automatically clear them when I close down the databases Suits my way of working as I always have a search facility on main listing screens.

I had a similar problem with my library database which I solved by adding a 'flag' field to each record and using the filter criteria to set the flag, then filtering on the flag setting. Works well as long as you subsequently remember to reset the flag, of course

I just lie - and keep the answers secure. :)

Back to the basis of IT security - it doesn't have to good but good enough. For instance, we are told 'never write your passwords down', but a physically secure bit of paper cannot be hacked and is certainly better than my memory. The stricture about writing them is aimed at the post-it note...

I wish you well - you are braver than me! 🐱 a cat for you to herd.

I love these simplistic debates. They nearly always ignore consequences (and harsh reality). And I promised myself I wouldn't contribute to this sort of thread again ... sorry.

As I said above I've been using Access since forever, but people forget about the world before Access. As I said Access 1 cost me £19, Access 1.1 was a free upgrade and Access 2 was a similar price (£30 is) to start with although I was lucky enough to get mine free. As the time the only...

Since Access 1.0 was released in UK in 1992 (cost £19). By best memory is going to the launch of Access 2.0 in UK at the US Embassy in London and being given as many free copies as we could carry.

There is stuff in Wikipedia that I've put there - I am suspicious of any site/ facility that would allow this!!

A fascinating thread but I fail to spot its usefulness. The whole point of JSON is to provide a fast and efficient system for basically unstructured data. I you read its Genesis it was devised as a way of avoiding the full panoply of XML to move data around on-line. We really shouldn't be...

I have somewhere a copy of an article that was written at the time of Al Gore's 'inconvenient truth' which showed that not necessarily he was wrong but the data he had used to prove it was methodologically totally flawed. Described as: "Taking the temperature in the fridge in July and in the...

My only experience of this as a large change with lots redundant feature/data etc was that we stopped an drew a functional diagram of the existing system showing each screen from the main menu onwards and the passage/calls etc. Each of the square boxes that represented screen was annotated with...

Generally here on AW users either just use native Access as their data store, or those producing more commercial apps, SQLServer. I would be intrigued to know what other back ends our contributors may currently use? I have in the past used Oracle, MySQL and SQLLite, albeit not these days when...

As far as I am concerned with all political opinions on this site - in the gutter. Carry on deleting Uncle Gizmo!