DWUTKA at marlow.com
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Thu Mar 25 13:53:56 CST 2004
What's impractical about Lookup stuff in a table design? Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H Tapia Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 1:11 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Framework Discussion - set up question Susan Harkins said the following on 3/25/2004 10:53 AM: >The main advantage is to the user that wants to use lists but just doesn't >have the expertise to do so. The table's lookup field is inherited by bound >controls, which makes it an efficient solution for the user. > > as with many things w/ Access.. just because you CAN do it doesn't mean you SHOULD. Of course Access is a Desktop application.. it has a lot of wizards and quick easy to use features that makes a lot of guys from marketing think they are developers :). This goes back to simple things that Access lets you do such as put spaces in your column and table names... Nice, yeah, practical, not really... -- -Francisco -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com