Recent content by Cotswold

Consider also maintaining price lists and multiple price lists. At an annual price change, rates will need to be entered in the weeks/days prior. Then on the day of the change all existing rates will need to be replaced with the new rates. Plus, you may need to maintain records of old price...

Maybe you don't need to? If the data is working fine why not just open the two of them from the merged FE? There is no restriction to opening more than one BE database and keeping them open. I often did that in my software. As a for-instance: I had a weighbridge program and a skip hire...

Generally, the certainty of unintended consequences has been the predilection of politicians. However, unintended consequences has also the become the bane of all software developers. As AI is trained by software developers we can only expect a considerable increase in these events. The problem...

Fools & Horses - Chandelier sketch

It is only a matter of time. The plan is to increase prices to ensure that all cars look cheaper if paid for by the mile or on subscription. One plan/dream, that I cannot see happening but it might. Is for car ownership to cease and if you want to go anywhere you will call a driverless car on an...

Which begs the question : Is Drag the 21st century equivalent of the 20th century blacking-up? At the end of the day they all tend to be stereotypical 'tarts' intended to make fun of women as an attempt at entertainment

Talk here about whether the next James Bond should be a woman. Why not a transwoman? At the start of the film he/she could stand at the end of the empty sewerage pipe. Then instead of pulling out the gun and firing it, they could shout down the pipe "Well hello honky-tonk" The plot could be...

It does appear that Trump has given in to Putin and will advise Ukraine to give away a great deal of land for peace in the short term. Putin is not a general by any stretch of the imagination. He was ill prepared for his invasion and knew little of his enemy. In three years he has achieved only...

Sometimes I'd print the statement out on a piece of cardboard, with the message "THIS IS A STIFF REMINDER" in large letters. Occasionally, I'd threaten County Court and they would always pay up then. A solicitor once told me that it was a simple task to do a DIY County Court claim. Providing I...

Many years ago I was at a client's office and she did the Rightclick which I didn't know about then. I thought, "hell I'm supposed to be the expert here, better sharpen up!" Many users don't know that Ctrl+; will copy the cell above in a spreadsheet and a field in a datasheet. They were always...

Well MajP, after all of the years using Access I have to admit, I didn't know about Shift+F2. Probably the single most useful feature I've seen in some time. Plus really useful to be able to expand the entries on editing a Query screen.

I've just had my dog chipped and now use him as a backup device.

The oldest profession is actually the DJ. They've been around since records began.

Just a thought. Why not have an RIP topic? Then this and any more of them can be sat in one place. If someone else is added next week they'll have another topic and we'll end up with the departed scattered all over the place each with a cryptic title. Maybe a new one in Non-Access issues, or...