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Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6

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Subject	Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6
Date	Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:29:29 -0500
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"Access Developer" <accdevel@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> I'm not sure why you are using both database and text files, but, if you 
> used good database design principles, and normalized your database, you 
> would not have to update the duplicate information that you are carrying, 
> because you would simply be referring to the employee records with a 
> foreign key and picking up the information from the "single authoritative 
> source" for each item of data.

To the OP, please see the link below, especially the three illustrations on 
the right:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_%28database%29#Objectives_of_normalization

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Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 "Nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> - 2011-02-13 09:29 -0500

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