Microsoft Access allows you to collect information from individuals and update your database automatically based upon their replies. Access includes a wizard designed to facilitate this task. In this tutorial, we walk through the process of populating an Access table with user-provided information.
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Collecting Information for an Access Database by E-mailE-mail Updates to an Access Database originally appeared on About.com Databases on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 06:19:17.
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Last years we saw amazing growth of Firebird, both in terms of users and in terms of installations (official Firebird installer for Windows has optional URL to notify Google Analytics about fresh install, and it shows more than 2000 Firebird installations every day and it grows over time!).
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This is the last week for submitting artworks for the Firebird’s 10th anniversary logo contest. We already have 18 submissions! Check the contest page to see the samples.
New presentation “Firebird Mythbusters” http://www.slideshare.net/mindthebird/firebird-mythbusters
Use it for competitive talks to crush the most annoying myths around
Firebird.
Gentle reminder – we still need localized versions of MindTheBird
presentation “Firebird Intro” and “Why Firebird”.
Best regards,
MindTheBird Team
Policy objects specify the conditions you wish to enforce against database targets using the Distributed Management Framework (DMF). In this tutorial, we create a DMF policy that enforces the stored procedure naming convention condition we
created together in the previous step.
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Creating a DMF PolicyCreating a DMF Policy originally appeared on About.com Databases on Sunday, March 7th, 2010 at 06:34:53.
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Version 1.6.3 of this database design and round-trip engineering software has been released.
In a
recent forum message, CarmenCha wrote:
"I have developed a Form to add records to a table. My record ID is composed of some of the values entered by the user (like: birth-date and names). I can compose the value on a form control but then I cannot copy/load it into the KeyID field. Can someone help me with this? Any suggestions?"
Can you help Carmen? Interested in solutions to the same problem? Visit the
About Databases forum and join the discussion!
Help with Record Identifiers originally appeared on About.com Databases on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 06:40:37.
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SQL includes a CASE statement that allows you to return varying results based upon the evaluation of expressions. You can use a CASE statement anywhere within a SQL statement that you would normally include an expression. CASE statements are often found in SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE statements as well as WHERE and IN clauses.
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Classifying Results with SQL CASE StatementsCASE Statements in SQL Queries originally appeared on About.com Databases on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 06:39:34.
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We already have 9 submissions for the 10th anniversary logo contest. Hurry up! Deadline for submissions is 15/March.
Fast Report becomes a sponsor of MindTheBird! campaign. The Firebird ambassador, who will attract most of all new members to the MindTheBird! until March 5, will get free Fast Report Studio license. New member should mention referrer name in [...]
