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  1. Darth Vodka

    Contain link to access record in email

    can you have the DB remember what issue are for a certain person and when they log in, check their NTID and display the relevant records for them? your link in the email is just a link to the DB
  2. Darth Vodka

    Does anyone actually use D<Function>?

    ooh ta i can see the logic there...will give that a go when next in trouble
  3. Darth Vodka

    Exclusive access

    ok how about a shortcut that uses the /excl flag? http://www.vb123.com/workbench/help/commandline.htm
  4. Darth Vodka

    Locking Down Databases

    use a back end with a database password and use an MDE for a front end keep the front end MDB on a personal drive
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    Locking Down Databases

    i'll give you the 2003 answers :) switched off in the start up options tools>start up switched off in the start up options again switched off in the start up options again you have to switch this off in code, search the forum for the code make a copy of the db, mess the code up and you'll...
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    Does anyone actually use D<Function>?

    i use them in VBA to count little recordsets or a cheeky dlookup..it's a lot less code i'd never use them in queries or on big queries/tables in VBA oh and i use them every now and again when i have an updatable form based on a complicated query and i can't link in any more tables as the query...
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    Exclusive access

    give them all read-only access on a network drive :)
  8. Darth Vodka

    going from Access97 to Access2007

    and as for why do people still use 97... my place has a hundred Access 97 databases, a lot linking into each other and all of them used all day... to replace them would be a lot of man-hours...some of them are key applications i can't wait until IT refuse to let Office 97 be on the PCs...
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    going from Access97 to Access2007

    aaah, didn't try that :) ta bob, here to learn!
  10. Darth Vodka

    Using cells in excel to drive a query in access

    call a DAO.recordset and create the SQL on the fly and use MATCH/INDEX instead of VLOOKUP ;)
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    going from Access97 to Access2007

    we have a lot of 97 at my work :( my initial thoughts:- if you have a db where you amend the live if it goes wrong whilst users are in it - you cannot in 2000+ you are forced to do things better, using a dev and a live version and almost ceratinly having a seperate back end if you have lots...
  12. Darth Vodka

    corruption over a SAN

    cheers doc man will inwardly digest and find a few network guys to think about many thanks
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    corruption over a SAN

    hi we have an Access db with a lot of users ~100 in Bristol (note to non UK folks Bristol to London is 120 miles = 190 km) due to an IT policy, they have no LAN...they log into a virtual machine that is on a SAN and the database is sitting on a server in London unfortunately due to (we...
  14. Darth Vodka

    my newby first ASP page

    hi am i right in thinking that i need to open my "hello world" asp page on a folder on the webserver and i can't just open it from a bog-standard network drive? tried opening it...but no "hello world" :( edit: aaah, you can view the results in Visual Studio Web Developer without deploying to...
  15. Darth Vodka

    Could not use 'Admin'; File already in use.

    how are your users logging in? a shortcut? if so, what username are they logging in under?
  16. Darth Vodka

    If Then Else problem

    or indeed nz(Forms!frmDefaults!Ad1Headline,"") = ""
  17. Darth Vodka

    replace in sql 6.5

    ah, think the error was more that i couldnt use replace with a datetime have worked around it thanks
  18. Darth Vodka

    Error msg given when I try to update data

    do it as a make table query then see what field types it comes up with in the temporary table you make...then compare them to the ones you are populating inhe update qry
  19. Darth Vodka

    replace in sql 6.5

    does anyone know the function(s) to do what REPLACE does in ss2005? :confused:
  20. Darth Vodka

    DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet

    no, which is very strange tried different everythings, i have no instance of it working. maybe it's a clash with 1997/2000 or a clash with something else we all have installed perhaps Access needs a service pack or something :confused: will have to get a reinstall i think...
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