[AccessD] Select Exported Files from Access

Bill Benson bensonforums at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 14:50:11 CDT 2015


Needs Group By? too simplistic I am sure... but I always had to do that in
GE databases which had false "index" columns which were not really as
unique as they thought...

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:33 PM, David McAfee <davidmcafee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Although I've been playing with computers since I was a kid, I didn't get
> into programming as a career until the early 90s.
>
> I couldn't stand the database software that we were using (Rbase, btrieve &
> great plains)  and decided to make a new
> app to handle the Rbase part of it. We, the users always had to write down
> certain information on post it pads only to
> have to type it in on the next screen. I made sure that went away in my
> app.
>
>
> I also started to bring in information from the other software packages and
> displaying it on the same screen
> so they didn't have to switch between other programs.
>
> The other users LOVED the software as it made their job (phone support)
> much easier (more efficient).
> I rarely had to negotiate. Changes were understood and well received.
>
> I left the company in 2004 and went to another company for 10 years.
>
> That company, like this one, had many users that did not like change, even
> if it made their lives easier.
>
> That's when I became a negotiator. ;)
>
>
> Now, back to dealing with PK-less tables joined against excel links and
> trying to figure out why there are duplicate records :)
>
> Sigh...
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > I suspect when you got into the computer business, you did not think that
> > being a first class negotiator was one of your most important job
> > requirements. ;-)
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
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