[AccessD] Membership File Changes

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Fri Mar 7 15:04:56 CST 2014


Because MS BASICs (including VBA) and Access  have never had an intrinsic  DWORD (aka 
unsigned long)  data type.

The failure to introduce one into BASIC with the advent of Windows has always struck me as 
strange since they are at the core of the Windows API 

-- 
Stuart


On 7 Mar 2014 at 13:27, John W Colby wrote:

> Bill,
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong but what is going on is that the
> autoincrement is a SIGNED long integer, i.e. +/- 2^31.  I never, even thoug
> understood why they used a signed long instead of an unsigned long but
> it is what it is.
> 



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