[AccessD] Persistent Connection question

[Janet Erbach]

Hello all -

I've finally discovered what's been causing extremely flaky behavior in a
database I've been wrestling with for the past 3 weeks.  It was one line of
code in the menu form that opens with the app:

Dim dbsAlwaysOpen As DAO.Database
Set dbsAlwaysOpen =
OpenDatabase("S:\MAINT\ToolingTech\dbToolingTechData.accdb", False)

Some forms were not populating consistently, records were sometimes being
dropped during select and insert queries, other forms needed to be manually
refreshed repeatedly in order to display all records, things like that.
The app worked fine when opened in design view - not when run from the menu.

This morning I bound the menu form to a small, 'fake' table in the backend
and everything seems back to normal now.

Why would this method of establishing a persistent connection cause
issues?  I found code like this on a couple of websites when I was pursuing
serious speed issues with the app.

Thanks!

Janet Erbach