[GLLUG] MS Access help

Michael George george at idealso.com
Tue Aug 12 15:08:17 EDT 2008


I completely agree.  I can't imagine why we have Access "applications"
here...

BTW, the solution was to hold down the shift-key while Access started and
then I got a screen where I could view the linked tables.  Completely
intuitive.  Yeah.

On Tue, August 12, 2008 3:03 pm, Clay Dowling wrote:
>
> Rewrite it in a real language with a real database engine?  Delphi or C++
> coupled with SQLite would make this thing a lot easier on everybody.
> Especially if you have the good sense to include a CSV export feature for
> generic queries, so that everyone can generate custom reports without
> difficulty and load them into Excel for formatting.
>
> Clay
>
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Michael George wrote:
>
>> Okay, so this is an unusual question for the gllug list, but I cannot
>> find
>> the answer on the web and none of the winusers here has the answer.
>>
>> I have this Access script database/application that someone else wrote
>> that is choking.  There is a path to another database that is wrong.
>> However, when I try to load the app, it tries to link to the database
>> which isn't where it thinks it is.  So it gives me an error message and
>> allows me to debug (in the VisBasic environment) or exit.
>>
>> What I want to do is get to the linked table menu and fix the link to
>> the
>> correct path.  How can I accomplish that goal?
>>
>> -Michael George
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>


-Michael George


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