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Access doesn't have a problem inserting records with the value for the Autonumber column predefined, as long as it is not a duplicate of an existing value. This will also reset the sequential autonumber seed, so can be a problem waiting to happen if a record is inserted with a value less than...

Another alternative might be an Input Mask. https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/control-data-entry-formats-with-input-masks-e125997a-7791-49e5-8672-4a47832de8da

Excel is a bloody hopeless way to look at a csv.

These parking companies are just predators and the problem is growing. They create an app to collect the money, then canvas entities who have parking areas, paying a small regular amount to use them for their activities. It was done recently in the underground carpark of the building where my...

There are geological records going back millions of years. The fact is, decades ago, climate scientists projected a startling increase in global temperatures would occur based on increasing carbon dioxide levels. It is is happening. For years, climate change denialists argued that there was no...

If we are following the usual glaciation cycle, we are close to the end of interglacial period and should not be seeing rapid rises in temperature. The discovery of glaciation cycles was the reason scientists in the seventies thought we would be starting to enter another glaciation. The human...

You should avoid assuming that scientists don't know about these matters just because you don't have a clue.

In Australia we have just been through the hottest and in many places the most humid summer ever. Some inhabited places reached 50 Celsius (122 F).

I'm Australian and I have never heard the expression. The colloquialisms do vary considerably across the country. Paul's comment suggests to me it is an Americanism that might have been adopted in parts of Australia. BTW I don't take a piss in the manner described either.

What is in place to stop a user deleting the records?

Auto incrementing Ids are allocated once and not reused if the record they were applied to is started but not saved.

I came very close to warning Aziz for the same post.

All the scriptures are nothing more sophisticated than the personal prejudices of the delusional people who imagined their hallucinations were communications from a supernatural being. In short, these people were mentally ill. Every year at Ramadan, Muslims try to recreate the mental illness in...

Plus there are multiple versions of Arabic with variations on whether short sounds are written. These differences may be carried over and the short sounds are sometimes left out in the translations too. I think maybe that is why apostrophes are used a lot.

It begs the question as to the species of the burning bush and whether they inhaled.