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The following is a snippet...

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My best guess is that I need to somehow to use a DEFAULT value in the table that persists so each time a row is created the datetime it was created is saved with the row, rather than being re-calculated each time the table is opened. There are probably several other ways of doing it and this may not be the easiest.

I'm not a programmer, just an Engineer, so I can only read Help for 5 minutes at a time.

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