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Brian As always you detect the prime point with uncanny accuracy any offer the wisdom that comes with maturity. I am flattered to be grouped with the "youngsters" but I never get asked for proof of age when buying whisky !!!! Len With not too long a time to "old fart" status

Cheers I hope I have many years left but not all in employment. :) Few years of fun and then a return to a deserved retirement is the target Len

send me a PM with an email address and I can send a couple of docs that explain security. Will not be able to send until this evening. Len

I am back... well nearly anyway Spent 6 months retired. Quite nice actually Picked up a job advert last wednesday, interviewed thursday, started monday so this is end of first week No email, no network logon, no phone Going okay but I do have a bit of an education job. Thier pride is a set...

Thanks for the thought. Wife has found me work at the moment without me being persistent !!!!!! Was seriously considering retirement this year anyway... just a bit miffed I was not the one to make decision. Take great heart knowing that my take on Sharepoint was far more enlightened than the...

As ever Pat you distil the facts into precise explanation and example. In my last position the management attitude was that Sharepoint can do everything that you can do in Access and more. Having disagreed with them on this point on a number of occassions and been ignored I trust they will...

Again I think Bob has hit the nail on the head. Sharepoint is basically an un-normalised table, None of the intelligent useful things we have in Access so bear in mind that depending on the Sharepoint interface a web user may put all sorts of crap into the table which an Access interface will...

Means you reached the "critical mass" of knowledge that will enable you to teach yourself basically. Also to be able to take "nuggets" and develop them yourself and used them in ways that were never intended. Then things get really interesting and you find yourself getting really involved...

Brian Yup got carried away a bit . I have a bit of a thing about skills, that's the problem. I find that people with skills very frequently underestimate their own but recognise skills in others. We refer to trial and error fairly frequently and it can be interpreted as a very hit and miss...

So you have a task to perform, some sort of in depth analysis that you heve never done before then the determination of the process required is not trial and error really it is the disection of the problem and the building of a logical process concept. Next process it to consider the process...

Not at all but I think it is important to understand where the trial and error bit actually occurs. So you have a task to perform, some sort of in depth analysis that you heve never done before then the determination of the process required is not trial and error really it is the disection of...

Got onto Databases as part of degree. Okay very theoretical but used access as learning vehicle so leart basics like normalisation as a basic principle. This forum did open my eyes in terms of what can be done. Totally failed to understand some of the questions and the answers were even more a...

Was once asked to query a database to determine what wasn't there. Also hada conversation about relational database design with a person who did not actually know enough to know how little he did know, Hmmmm. Maybe because the senior manager who, was also there, knew even less that the person...

But I think it is interesting to know where in the world the person I am hopefully helping is living. Does give some ideas as to how quick they will give feedback L

Hmmm What rules does your daughter have regarding you. My daughter was always a bit worried if I spoke to any of the boyfriends. Apparently they never came back....... Fiance is a 6 foot 5 dental surgeon... nice guy L

Many thanks for the comments. Ken. Redundancy Notice. Mean your skills are no longer required andtherefore neither are you. Does not mean you are crap at what you are doing, just that company have decided those skills are not relevant tothem any more. Sort of a kick in the whatsits saying...

Christmas is coming and redundancy notices are being issued. Mine completes on 19th December and so I will not be around much. Just like to thank everybody on the Forum for their help and guidance over the years. It has been a real pleasure to "meet" you all. If anybody hears of the need...

I am getting told that Reports are failing to open in a straightforward database (No linked tables but on network). It seems that some users have just been transferred to Active Directory and this appears to be creating the problem as things were okay before. I have done a search but not luck...

favourite saying of mine also but with the addition "He who makes the same mistake twice is a fool" Hmmmmm depends on definition of "same" and "twice" L

Check all thathas been suggested but alsocheck the network permissions. Do the users have a full set of permissions at network level to Read, Write, Modify and Delete. Just wondering if there is a locking process occurring inside the database that cannotbe written to the ldb and therefore not...