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Oct-1996 |
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Smart Access Article Abstracts |
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Web-Enabled Apps with the Internet Database Connector |
Richard Knudson |
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Article |
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One of the best applications of Internet technology is the ability to make your databases available to anybody with a web |
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browser. Richard shows you how to do this with Access databases using Microsoft’s Internet Database Connector, which is part |
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of the I |
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Editorial for October 1996 Issue |
Paul Litwin |
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Editorial |
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A Change of Heart: Paul embraces the Internet with enthusiasm as he discusses this month's articles. |
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Microsoft's Internet Strategy Update |
Richard Knudson |
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Sidebar |
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Sidebar to "Web-Enabled Apps with the Internet Database Connector". Discusses Microsoft's Internet strategy. |
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Helen Feddema |
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Smart Tip |
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Access 95 introduced the VBA With...End With construct, which lets you simplify repeated references to an object. |
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Developing Applications in a Dual Platform World |
Mike Gilbert |
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Article |
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Are you faced with developing and supporting applications written in both Access 2.0 and Access 95? If so, you’re not alone. |
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Many organizations are moving very slowly to Windows 95 or Windows NT, making it difficult to introduce new, 32-bit |
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applications. |
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Alan Biggs |
13 |
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Smart Tip |
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Did you know that you could use an update query in Access to both update and add records at the same time? |
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Synchronize Databases using Access 2.0 or 95 |
Steve White |
14 |
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Article |
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Access 95 includes built-in support for replication, but Access 2.0 lacks these capabilities. Steve has created a mechanism for |
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synchronizing changes and additions to data in one database with a remote database containing the same table set that will |
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work |
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Several Secrets of Good Form |
Ken Getz |
19 |
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Access Answers |
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This month, Ken takes on four: working with multi-paged forms, creating command buttons with both images and text, and |
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animating controls on forms. All examples work equally well in Access 2 and in Access 95 -- the 16-bit demonstration database |
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is QA96101 |
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Building Criteria the Easy Way |
Helen Feddema |
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Smart Tip |
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If you've ever struggled to remember the cryptic syntax for dates so you could create an expression for a form's Filter property |
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or a SQL statement, you'll love the BuildCriteria method, which was introduced in Access 95. |
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Is Your Application Already Running? |
Michael Kaplan |
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Smart Tip |
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At times you may need to keep users from opening more than one copy of your application. |
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Roll the Credits! |
Ken Getz |
24 |
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Smart Tip |
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Although Access 95 has been out for almost a year, Microsoft has been very circumspect about releasing the steps necessary to |
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find the product’s "Easter Egg" the credits screen that you’ll find in most Microsoft products. Here it is, as well as the Access |
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Access World News for October 1996 Issue |
Paul Litwin |
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Access World News |
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Softbite International's training classes; Sybex's Access and SQL Server Developer's Handbook by Viescas, Gunderloy, and |
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Chipman; Aufrance Associates's Survey Internet; Azalea Software's carrick. |
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Product Links |