[AccessD] Dlookups. your opinion please.

Well as long as the client does not mind sponsoring you for a few months
things can be fixed (major, major re-write)

Jim

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darryl Collins
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 8:54 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] Dlookups. your opinion please.

Hi All,

I have, ummm, inherited a database (SQL Server Back, Access Front) at work.
Frankly this thing is a disaster waiting to happen and since the guy who
built has left (he used to admin it, and I suspect there were regular band
aid repairs and updates to keep it all steady) the actual users are having
no end of bother and bugs with it.  anyway, I digress...

The code is full of DLookups, something which I have not felt the need to
use ever.  I think I read somewhere that using lots of dlookups is a bad
idea.  Anyway. What is your opinion on using them?  If they are fine and no
bother then I am happy to leave them in the code (at least for now).  But if
they are known to be bothersome then I am more than happy to get rid of them
and use something better.

this thing just gets more and more ugly.  Nearly everything in the VBA code
is dimmed as a string and they are wondering why the numeric fields are not
populating correctly.  messy messy messy.  I can see someone in the past has
figured out that was a bad idea and redimmed some stuff as double. But they
have left the code like this
"Dim strMyVariable as Double" which is a right PITA when debugging. And the
whole show is being driven client side from Access, rather than server side
from SQL Server... Sorry about the rant...

cheers and get me another scotch!
darryl.



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