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    What do I do?

    Outlook is not a database My thoughts Write down what you want to do. (The Domain of discussion) Write down the Enterprise rules (A Customer may he=ave mny contracts type of thing. Sounds a bore but fundamentally defines your goals Define the functionality levels. What it must do. Maybe...
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    Cellphone ban while driving

    Best description I ever heard of driving A real time hazard analysis situation. So any interuption to the basic real time hazard analysis process should be avoided but it is boring that way as well L
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    Question Designing queries for multiple identical table structures and expanding data

    Basically The data needs to be normalise cos it is crazy have teh table structure you have. Having said that you are probably in teh position of being stuck with what you have got So a UNION query is the answer. But you need to be a bit cunning as well. Union query for each year and then a...
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    Contract of Employment

    How long did it take you to develop the eyesight. Last time I messed up a bit the ears took a week to recover. No troubles really. Last December the redundancy shook me up. having worked for 46 years it really smacked me about a bit. Now (with whisky to hand) I have a totally different...
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    2 versions of Access conflict issue

    The alternative is to use a 97 backend. 97, 2000 and 2003 FE's all linked to the common 97 BE Shortct to use whatever version they have and all okay L
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    Contract of Employment

    Hi Gary Like the style Basically I started this job in July having been made redundant last December. They treat their people like crap. My Govenor is really good and they are at the moment saying he is redundant but offereing another position at lower salary and conditions. He is a bit...
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    Contract of Employment

    Thanks guys In the case of being dismissed what would be the grounds. I would not have broken any rules or laws just simply refused to accept a change in the employment contract. That could give them a headache Basically it is a crap company and as Brian has probably guessed I am closer to...
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    Contract of Employment

    My current Contract of Employment states working hours of 08:00 to 16:45 Mon to Thursday 00:30 Break 08:00 to 13:30 Friday with no break Say the company decides to changes these hours to say 09:00 to 17:00 Mon to Friday. My belief is that they will have to issue a new contract of employment...
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    What's Happening

    Whatever day of the week its not a good day. Happened to me on 31/12/07. Spent 6 months practicing for retirement. Bugger all help from teh government although had worked for 46 years. been in new job for 5 months now. So. Hope it does not happen but if it does. You must make things...
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    Cell phone ban for drivers!

    Re Brian's daughters situation. This very clearly shows that in this country unfortunately we have become obsessed with meeting targets. These are targets purely for say number of motoring convictions. So using a mobile whilst stationary but with engine running is an easy hit and one nearer...
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    Question How to get security on a database

    Personal Message Think you click on my name somewhere I will not be at home until Sunday so will send docs then L
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    Tip Buildling An Applicant tracking System With Access as the Database

    We are all looking for this :D:D:D L PS Depends on what you know already. Most books are only useful to a point. Like learning to drive. When you think you know then you start to learn. So if you are really new get a "Dummies" book. Once you know a bit most books only have little bits...
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    Ouma's Guide to getting ahead in IT

    Never hold back on teh Documentation User the Access documenter 000's of pages full of the most detailed information that obviously removes any comments about the lack of documentation. Have you tried reading this stuff ?????? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Asleep in seconds but fulfils the Technobableand...
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    Happy Birthday Brianwarnock!

    Have fun and enjoy the "Red" says young sprog to not quite so young sprog
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    How to build a menu with restrictions

    Okay Have you got some code to detect the User ID from Windows How about Option Compare Database Private Declare Function apiGetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias _ "GetUserNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long Function fOSUserName() As String 'Returns User name Dim lngLen...
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    Question about normalized tables

    Mr G help is not a problem for people on this forum. It is good to get a response back, that helps the helpers. If you click on the scales on the helpers post you can add Reputation points. Just a bit of info for next time Len B
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    Question about normalized tables

    When you analyse an entity then you establish the attributes of that item. Now it is quite in order to have null values for an attribute but it would, I suggest be good practice to attempt toestablish anentry for all attributes. Why ?. A null value ?. Is it Null or is it missing. That is the...
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    Access security wizard

    using the wizard without knowing how security works is a recipe for for a problem as you have found. Send me a PM with an email address and I will send some documents explaining security and how to avoid the pitfalls Documents are too large to post here Len B
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    General Question

    I was a slow started. At the age of 50 I had the opportunity totake a Masters course in Computing. Basically I am a time served engineer thathad got into using a computer and systems as part of my engineering job. Had no qualifications in computing. Degree exposed me to databases and Access...
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    How about that DOW?

    Hmmm with the news from the last couple of days is it now time to start buying shares. Not in financial sector but lots of other sectors have taken a hit because of the scare. There are I think some shares that have solid backing and appear cheap at the moment. Not looking at quick return...
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