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Re: Getting inside an .accdb file

From	Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Subject	Re: Getting inside an .accdb file
Date	2011-11-21 13:05 -0700
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On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:29:54 -0000, R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> wrote:
  
>Indeed - and the original plonker who wrote the Access app (and charged a 
>pretty penny for it, I might add) needed a good whack with a clue-stick.
>Basically a colletion of flat tables, absolutely no normalisation (e.g. a 
>Customers table with a completely new record duplicating name address 
>etc. for every additional contact at that customer)
>and worse, table names with spaces and table names like "11/ 09/11"

Oooyyy!   I'm not sure why I charge such reasonable prices.

Tony
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Getting inside an .accdb file R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-11-17 09:48 +0000
  Re: Getting inside an .accdb file H-Man <Spam@bites.fs> - 2011-11-17 14:37 -0700
    Re: Getting inside an .accdb file H-Man <Spam@bites.fs> - 2011-11-17 16:23 -0700
      Re: Getting inside an .accdb file R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-11-18 09:46 +0000
        Re: Getting inside an .accdb file Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2011-11-18 12:10 -0700
  Re: Getting inside an .accdb file Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2011-11-17 16:08 -0700
    Re: Getting inside an .accdb file R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-11-18 09:46 +0000
      Re: Getting inside an .accdb file Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2011-11-18 12:09 -0700
        Re: Getting inside an .accdb file R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-11-19 10:29 +0000
          Re: Getting inside an .accdb file Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2011-11-21 13:05 -0700
            Re: Getting inside an .accdb file R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-11-23 18:10 +0000
              Re: Getting inside an .accdb file ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-11-23 15:10 -0600
              Re: Getting inside an .accdb file Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2011-11-24 17:12 -0700
        Re: Getting inside an .accdb file Jason Keats <jkeats@melbpcDeleteThis.org.au> - 2011-11-19 22:23 +1100
          Re: Getting inside an .accdb file R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-11-20 12:30 +0000

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