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I probably shouldn't have mentioned my preference for Oracle. It distracted from my main point that too many people assume that the ONLY alternative back-end is SQL Server. I was lucky with licencing costs but suffered as developer because my company went from DB5, to SQL Server, to Oracle as...

Ain't what it used to be. Real Nostalgia!!

I wrote my Masters thesis on Wordstar on DRDOS (CP/M 3 by any other name fo 8088 8086 systems). CP/M had a full screen editor when MSDOS only had Edlin!

Sounds like a job for an Import/Export spec (old style) which were invented for just this sort of task if you are doing it in code, or simply choosing you separator if you are doing a manual export.

Interesting concept 'deprecated'. I know what it purports to represent but experience of the IT industry shows that it actually represents many things. The supplier, in most cases Microsoft, wants to get rid of a feature but can't because it is intimately embedded in their own soft ware. The...

A form is just an instance of a class. The normal way of opening with Docmd.openForm always refers to the same instance. To create a second instance you just need to set a variable of an Access form to with a create statement or a declaration of Set Form = New formname.

A few random thoughts. Perhaps I'm missing the point here but WiFi is just another way to connect to a LAN. Even at a personal level I have a mapped drive on my laptop which is wirelessly connected to my network. People seem to somehow equate WiFi with just being web based/cloud based. Also...

Depending what you want to do with JSON and you are happy to use a different BE (which has about the same power and limitations as Acceses) SQLite has a full suite of JSON extensions to its SQL. SQLITE SQL

Just remember that Bill Gates described C# as VB for snobs. Personally, despite decades of using C, C++, Javascript, and C#, I much prefer Basic as it is far easier to write readable code, whereas the C coding paradigm leads so easily to unmaintainable 'write only' code.

My experience with spreadsheets in general and Excel in particular, is that they are business critical in many organization, but have no quality assurance whatsoever. The are, I am told my a Management Accountant friend of mine, the biggest single source of CAB (Computer Aided Bankruptcy)...

Floppy Derives are still available - there's a huge selection on Amazon.

I don't follow the logic of this this reasoning! 1) what do they forget? 2), how is messing up a local FE a bigger problem than messing up a network one which affects all users? 3) Lastly if people intend to mess things up this is a disciplinary matter. I suspect, however, that this...

It has 4 options - positive, negative, zero and null

Whilst you are absolutely right the old rule of security still holds. Security doesn't have to be perfect, or even good as an absolute. It has to be good enough. If it is going to take 30 minutes to crack then make sure you use it for 29 minutes or fewer. Obviously an extremely simplistic...

Problem solved!

I may well be - I'll check it out thanks.:)

Recently in a past post I can no longer find (after a considerable amount of searching) there was a link to a new Basic compiler - I thought it looked interesting and thought I'd saved the link - seems if I did I can find that either! Can anyone remember this post/link? Thanks for any assistance.

Could you explain the sequence of what you are trying to do in more detail and especially what processing you do on the temp file.

At least you have some court cases to blame. In UK such decisions are made by faceless bureaucrats, with no appeal. The logic of just objecting to a Bible studies group is flawed - is anyone forced to go, are they refusing equivalent groups from other religious groups, are they meeting where...

Cheers - it was a fun chat and just to confuse thing Microsoft called them all Command Bars!