Robert L. Stewart
rl_stewart at highstream.net
Mon Apr 19 15:52:39 CDT 2004
Ken, You have been in my SIG long enough to know that is a resounding YES, it is a bad design. But, do you actually populate all 140 tables with the same data like she is doing? Robert At 03:42 PM 4/19/2004 -0500, you wrote: >Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:19:09 -0500 >From: "Ken Ismert" <KIsmert at TexasSystems.com> >Subject: RE: [AccessD] Re: Changing the table in a query so I can > loopthrough thequery >To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> >Message-ID: <005401c42632$6d9702d0$2a3ca8c0 at TEXASSYSTEMS.COM> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > >Well, I've been shepherding a db with almost 140 identical tables. Maybe >twice the design problem? I inherited it three years ago, and it soon became >clear that the cost to redo it 'properly' was too high. Perhaps in another >three years the opportunity will present itself. > >-Ken