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    Abnormal exit of vb.net

    After several years of not using vb.net I now have the time to continue with my recreational programming. However I have a problem. Where I use either ctl/Alt/break or ctl/Alt/del to halt a program I am then unable to start the program again as the original .exe/output file for the debugger is...
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    Date problem transferring Access table to SQl

    Hello all, I don't use SQL that much and I'm bewildered that MS SQL server cannot import and Access table with english Dates of Birth ie 22/12/1970. It fails to convert with an error message, then if I change the destination date field to a character field it will then import, but the Dates are...
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    Access 2000 suddenly closing

    Recently Access has started to suddenly close. Usually when I have been developing although I do not appreas to have lost anything as I Save, Save, Save all the time. Last week I had a report that a live access 2000 is doing the same thing. Users are in the middle of entering data and suddenly...
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    pcx files and Access 2003

    Hello all This morning I converted an Access 97 db to Access 2003. Unfortunately the db will not now open any .pcx files. Does anybody know if there is there an issue with .pcx files. According to MSDN Access should (and you would expect it to) open .pcx files. I did notice that when office...
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    to Normalise or not to Normalise - that is the question

    In general I design my DBs to 3rd NF. As I've worked in the Health Service for nearly 30 years, most DBs follow a pattern and I automatically normalise. I recently worked on a DB with a large dataset. This db collected Obesity monitoring data and this data was taken at intervals over a year...
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    PC to MAC

    Due to the incessant problems I have with microsoft products and their philosphy of bringing out bloatware and bug ridden software that consumes any hardware gains from Moores Law. I would like to move to a MAC. Has anybody any experience of this. I have 1000s of photos many in Adobe elements...
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    Referential Integrity and ADO

    greeting, I am doing some investigation into converting a single user booking system into a multiuser database (Access 2000). I am developing a module to use a Session Lock Table where a date will be entered into the session lock table and from then on no one else can insert another record for...
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