[AccessD] Find First in an Array? - The Solution Revisited - Now Tag is the Answer

On top of that, loading the controls into memory, when a form loads,
you're still putting all that stuff into memory....

Drew

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Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:35 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Find First in an Array? - The Solution Revisited
- Now Tag is the Answer

 >No you don't; code for manipulating tags to store multiple values has
been floating around since 
A2 and has been discussed numerous times on this list.

That is true Jim.  It is however almost exactly analogous to
denormalizing a table by storing a ton 
of entirely unrelated data in a single field in a table.  Sure it can be
done, but you won't catch 
me doing it (anymore).  The pluses just don't outweigh the minuses.  Put
that same stuff in a table 
and load it from there as the form opens.  Once you load it you REALLY
don't need to place it in a 
tag because you have much better constructs to use.

I am sure it used to make sense back when a computer was dog slow, only
had 64 megs of memory, and 
had slow hard disks, slow networks and so forth.  To try and justify it
now becomes a stretch.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

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