[AccessD] A Mystery

Rocky Smolin rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Mon Aug 22 20:35:54 CDT 2011


Dear List:
 
I have a client I helped with a legacy app - interesting business - seed
dealer - buys some and grows some on land in El Centro.  But I digress.
 
I got a call today from the company - they're getting an error on opening
the mdb - "Data type mismatch in criteria expression".  The opening form has
as a Record Source a query that does indeed generate that error when I run
it. 
 
So my first thought is that their network has corrupted the back end.  They
sent me the back end and I can duplicate the error but there are not
apparent corrupted records.  
 
I isolated the field in the query that causes the error but everything looks
dandy with that field.
 
I set up a DAO loop and read each of the records in several of the likely
tables, hoping one would blow and I could clean out a corrupted record - but
no cigar.
 
I didn't ask them if anything changed in their system right before this
happened - I'll have to ask them tomorrow. But everybody has the same
problem.
 
I'm at a loss.  Any WAGs?
 
MTIA
 
Rocky Smolin
Beach Access Software
858-259-4334
www.bchacc.com <http://www.bchacc.com/> 
www.e-z-mrp.com <http://www.e-z-mrp.com/> 
 
 
 



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