pcs at azizaz.com
pcs at azizaz.com
Fri Feb 9 18:48:03 CST 2007
This 'nice' feature bit me severely this week as well. For years I have been sending minor modifications to remote users by creating a small .mdb container to carry the tables, queries, modified forms etc. .... I recently updated to A2003. This week a modified query that was imported to the production database now instead of creating the expected dozen or so records in a temp table started off adding thousands upon thousands of records..... an investigation revealed that the inner joins between two tables had been removed by the 'helpful feature' and as a result turned the query into a cartesian product query (i think it's called) ..... Unfortunately - unlike for example choosing Access table type: Access 2000 or Access2002-2003 which can be set permanently in your options, this nice feature cannot be turned off as the permanent default, but appears to have to be turned OFF as the FIRST thing you do EVERY TIME you create a NEW database.... Allen Browne writes about the issue and gives pointers to all the things that according to MS can go wrong with this feature turned on: http://www.allenbrowne.com/bug-03.html Is there ANY way of turning this feature off permanently, by settings in the registry for example? </...deep sigh> regards borge ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:08:12 -0500 >From: "Barbara Ryan" <BarbaraRyan at cox.net> >Subject: Re: [AccessD] Queries are messed up! >To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > >Gary.... > >You are absolutely right --- the "Name Autocorrect" options are the >culprits --- see >http://alexdyb.blogspot.com/2006/05/user-friendly-name- autocorrect-option.html > >Thanks a Bunch! >Barb > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gary Kjos" <garykjos at gmail.com> >To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" ><accessd at databaseadvisors.com> >Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 10:08 AM >Subject: Re: [AccessD] Queries are messed up! > > >>A couple of thoughts. First do you have the "Name Autocorrect" options >> checked or unchecked? I always UNCHECK them so Access doesn't try to >> get to smart when copying tables and queries etc. Second there is an >> option under the Import to "Import Relationships" is that checked?