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  1. rmarquez5

    Pictures and Text

    Greetings all. My movie database continues to evolve, and now I'm building a report that displays a brief bio of a given actor/actress, followed by a filmography made up of titles in my current collection. Pretty straightforward report, but I am running into a problem with layout space on my...
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    Retriving Record "x"

    Greetings All. I have one query that retrieves a list of all movie titles whose ID is between A and B. Currently, this query retrieves exactly 525 records. I want to write another query that retrieves every 75th record from the above. So want record 75, record 150, record 225, etc. Is there...
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    Report Not Same As Design View

    Report Not Same As Design View (sometimes) Greetings all. My movie database has benefited from the many tips and tricks from these forums. I am hoping to pick your brains once more for a report issue... One of my reports is designed to basically output the details of a movie title, one movie...
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    Building a "select from where not in" query

    Greetings all. I am trying to write a query much like this: select [title] from [want list] where [title] not in (select [title] from [available movies]); When I run it, I find it runs SO slow. Is there a better way to find the same results? Any input would be much appreciated. Hope to hear...
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    Copy/Paste vs. Inserts for Memo fields

    Greetings all. I have a created a useful recorded movie database in Access. One of the columns in my tables is a memo field, containing a description of the movie. I have a three main tables: a want list, scheduled recordings, and my current collection. When I use an append/insert query to...
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    Movie Database.... growing...

    Greetings!! This is a general question to all. My movie database is just over 270MB. I have some very basic info on about 1000+ titles -- title, tape#, position on tape, genre, and (this is probably the kicker) an object column to hold a small jpg of the movie cover, and a memo field to hold a...
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    Update using max from another table

    Greetings to all. I need to pick your brains, please. I have a movie database. I am adding an enhancement that keeps track of the ID of the last movie that was printed off in a given category, and current max ID found in that same category. If the IDs are the same, then you don't have new...
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    Want today's date in Field name

    Greetings all. When you build a query in MS Access, you can usually rename a field name to something more meaningful, if need be. Say the column in the table is called column1, but you want it to be a column named "title" for your query, you can say: title: column1 What I want to do is make...
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    Linked Oracle Table & Break Mode??

    We have a couple of end-users that are running into an error when closing the data view of links to Oracle tables, indicating the following (or something similar): "This action will reset the current code in break mode... Do you want to continue?" If you hit Yes, the window just pops up again...
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    Export report with objects

    If someone can help me out on this one, that would be GREAT. I have a report that consists of an object field which displays a picture and a text field underneath it as a description. I use the column settings in the page setup to display 8 columns. When I try to export the report to an RTF or...
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