[AccessD] version control

Doug Steele dbdoug at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 10:33:17 CDT 2008


Yes, I'd be interested in a bit more detail

Thanks,
Doug Steele

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Mark A Matte <markamatte at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
> I use a custom database property I call
> BuildNo(FILE--DatabaseProperties--TAB=Custom)...and everytime the mdb
> opens...it checks for a newer version in a specified place.
>
> If you would like more details let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark A. Matte
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:16:37 -0700
> > From: dbdoug at gmail.com
> > To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> > Subject: [AccessD] version control
> >
> > Hello all:
> >
> > Does anyone have any good ideas for database version control? I've
> tripped
> > myself up so many times on out-of-date versions of my databases. I now
> have
> > all my dbs check for a small 'key' file in the same folder as the
> current
> > version of the db, so that if I try to open up an older version in a
> > different folder, it won't run. But every once in a while I have to copy
> > the key file so I can view two db versions simultaneously, then of
> course I
> > sometimes forget to delete the copied key file, and two weeks later I
> find
> > I've got two different 'current' versions of the database.
> >
> > Doug Steele
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