Easy Question For You Guys
Jul 14, 2005
:mad: I need some quick help
I have a db with multiple tables. I have 15 queries that look up open audit obsrevations depending on the name.
I'm trying to limit the number of queries that I need to validate. Is there a way to create one query that has a lookup fied or Key word field.
Thanks in advance
-WM
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Sep 26, 2005
Our IT guys are on a vendetta against MS Access (and Lotus Notes but they've
won that fight). What I can't understand is, what's the problem? Why does
IT hate MS Access so much.
I have tried to find out who it is that actually wants to get rid of it, but
I can't find anyone who will admit to trying to get rid of it. Nevertheless,
I'm always hearing about how their "phasing it out" or "getting rid of it".
Because no-one owns up I can't even have an open debate about the pros and
cons of MS Access.
It is certainly amazing what disinformation is out there about what MS-Access
can and can't do. "MS Access clogs up the network". Well yeah... when IT
forces you to install the client of your client server app on the Network
Server it does. How come IT developer's clients can reside on the PC, but a
non-IT developer's client can't? "MS-Access requires you to download a copy
of the data before you can create a management report". Well no, we have a
thing called ODBC. "MS-Access doesn't let you set up views/derived
tables/abstraction layer/ multi-dimensional cubes blah, blah, blah" Well,
actually,... it does! "MS-Access can't publish reports to the web" Wrong!
"You can't upgrade Access 95/97 apps to Access 2000/2003/XP". Bzzzt! Wrong
again!
Meanwhile MS-Access has a number of exceptional strengths (a) an (almost)
comprehensive SDK (b) its cheap (c) lots of people have skills in it (no
$1500/day for an MS Access developer) (d) its well integrated with a
spreadsheet, a wordprocessor and its operating system (e) it's context
sensitive help is nothing short of fabulous (f) it has few limitations with
regard to aggregating aggregates or filtering by aggregates, maintaining
previously calculated data, etc etc. Look I could go on, but I have no
forum to argue my case.
So what is it? Is it the security model of Access? Is it the fear that IT
will be left holding the undocumented spaghetti-coded baby when the non-IT
developer skips town? Is it just that it's Microsoft, and its cool to thumb
your nose at Bill Gates? Or is it that IT doesn't like non-IT people having
access to the VB coding environment which can be used to overcome PC and
possibly Network security? Or is it something else?
I used to be in charge of Oracle DBAs and have been responsible for an
organisation's data management policy. I had nothing against MS Access then.
So what's the deal? :confused:
Regards,
Jeff Popova-Clark
Gold Coast Australia
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I don't normally work in access so I am sure I am asking a really easy question.
I have a table that is connected to a form where users enter survey data. Currently they have a drop down form to mark the responses to the survey as "Fully Completed", "Partly Completed", etc.
On the table I want to add the text "Awaiting Completion" to all those without any entry so that we can find out how many are left to do.
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Warning - Complete newbie post!
Hi all,
I have 2 Access databases setup, each containing 1 table. Let's call them A and B. These two tables contain some of the same fields.
Table A is used for collecting new client registration info through our website and gets updated by SQL.
Table B is on a different server and is used for company newsletter mailings.
Table A is the one which is automatically being updated so I don't need to do anything with that table. Also, some fields in Table A are auto-incrementing numbers so we can differentiate a clients interest and provide a more informative newsletter for them specifically on their selected interest.
Whenever an entry in certain fields of Table A is made, I would like the same fields of Table B to be updated with that same information automatically. For example...
Client subscribes to our newsletter on our site and selects their interests, the email field now contains the subscribers email address and the various 'interest' fields contain a '1' telling us they are interested in that particular area of our business. As this takes place on Table A, it needs to be also replicated to Table B.
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