[AccessD] Weird problem

Charlotte Foust charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Tue Jan 10 23:20:59 CST 2012


If you want to edit a SQL Server table from Access, my former employer
learned the hard way that you always need a time stamp field, so we always
added them automatically too.

Charlotte Foust

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Jim Dettman <jimdettman at verizon.net> wrote:

> Glad it worked.  A time stamp field isn't really a time stamp BTW, but
> activates row versioning in SQL.  JET will use that if it exists to
> determine if a record has changed or not since it last visited it.  Adding
> one is always a good idea.  There is no real downside to it and it usually
> takes care of any record set issues.
>
> I've made it a habit to always stick one in every table.
>
> Jim
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 10, 2012, at 10:31 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> > Adding the timestamp field fixed the problem.
> >
> > Thanks Jim.
> >
> > John W. Colby
> > Colby Consulting
> >
> > Reality is what refuses to go away
> > when you do not believe in it
> >
> > On 1/10/2012 6:07 PM, Jim Dettman wrote:
> >> Make sure there is a times tamp field in the table, no bit fields, then
> relink after changes
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On Jan 10, 2012, at 5:49 PM, jwcolby<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have a FE recently moved to SQL Server.  Bound main form, bound
> child form.  I entered a record in the main form, entered a record in the
> child form.  Tried to modify the record in the main form and it gives an
> error "the data has changed" and refuses to allow me to change the data.  I
> can change it directly in the tables in SQL Server.  I cannot modify the
> record directly in the (linked) table in the FE.
> >>>
> >>> I could create the record, but not modify the record.  I can modify
> any other record in the table, just not the one I created.
> >>>
> >>> No idea why not.
> >>>
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