[AccessD] Thanksgiving

[John Colby]

Giving thanks is a part of the human genome.  This list has been huge for
me as well.  I would not be where I am today had the list not existed.

I remember starting to learn access in 1992.  I lived in San Diego County
at that time, and real in-person user group meetings were the best we had.
And real books as well.  Every month I waited impatiently for the next user
group meeting so I could go get my questions answered.  It took so long to
learn stuff. Sometime around early 1996 (?) I found this group, at the time
owned by the fellow (name long since forgotten) that started it.  It was
such a gigantic relief to have hundreds of fellow programmers deep into the
bowels of Access and VBA, answers to questions in hours if not minutes.

And then the day AccessD mysteriously shut down.  The mad scramble to
discover why.  And obtain control from the owner who was very done with
maintaining the list.  All old history but part of who we are.  Hard to
believe that was 25-ish years ago.  And yes, I too am finding old date
stamps in the headers of my code.  Access 97, 1998 in my first libraries,
still using them today.

Good stuff, great list and many magnificent programmers around the world.
And I am also very grateful for all of you guys.


On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 10:56 PM Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com> wrote:

> Late to the party, is there any pie left? (No John Colby, I don't mean
> Raspberry Pi).
> Definitely thankful for this List as well. I am sure I will get back to
> Access  coding again one of these days.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 5:25 PM Borge Hansen <pcs.accessd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Arthur,
> > I completely concur with your sentiments about Thanksgiving as well as
> > AccessD.
> > Regarding 26 November as a day of thanksgiving, it was instituted by
> George
> > Washington back in 1789. It’s worth googling and reading his letter of
> that
> > time.
> > But why not use a moment every day to reflect on what thanksgivings we
> can
> > offer to family and friends, to community and institutions, to nature and
> > creation in it’s immensity … and to our Creator.
> > Arthur, .. and everyone else … thanks for your many inputs on this list
> > over the years.
> > /borge
> >
> > On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 at 1:17 am, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I know the American date is roughly a month away, but here in Canada
> > today
> > > is Thanksgiving. That means that we pause and take a few moments to
> > extend
> > > our thanks to those who matter to us. Typically we cook a turkey and
> > share
> > > it among family and friends, but COVID-19 has pretty much put the
> > > kairbosh to that, at least this year, so my little party will consist
> of
> > > three people, all of whom have received double-vaccinations.
> > >
> > > Here comes the Thanks part. I want to thank all my cyber-friends that I
> > > have met here on the AccessD list -- to many to name, or I would go
> over
> > > the message-length limit.
> > >
> > > So far as I know, Thanksgiving is only a celebration in North America,
> > and
> > > in the USA it's even bigger than Christmas. Geographic distribution of
> a
> > > moment of thanks doesn't matter. Try a Canadian moment and take a pause
> > and
> > > give thanks to those you love, and those events that changed your life
> > for
> > > the better.
> > >
> > > AccessD is the best site I ever found to exchange ideas and problems
> > with.
> > > I program in several languages,, but Access +Word + Excel is the main
> > one.
> > > I've created dozens of apps that begin with Access and then reach out
> to
> > > SQL Server and Word and Excel -- and one of them, which I am revisiting
> > > currently -- I wrote the original code in 2004! (How do I know this?
> > Thanks
> > > to MZ-Tools, which plants headers in your code that include StartDate,
> > > Aurthor, Purpose and so on.)
> > > When I look back, I think that trivial apps (those you can write in a
> > week
> > > or a month) have formed a small part of what I've written over my
> career.
> > > More often, the apps I've written involve 100+ tables, and now and then
> > > 500+ tables. Most of these were written in Access, and in the large
> > > examples, with a SQL back-end (the only way to deal with Terabytes of
> > > data._
> > > I learned a ton from this list, and thanks to you all, I scaled
> > mountains I
> > > didn't think I could climb.
> > > This is Canadian Thanksgiving, and I thank you all!
> > >
> > >
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-- 
John W. Colby
Colby Consulting