"Versioning" a .MDB file

[TC]

haha yeah.. as if it was that easy kid

(A) It /is/ that easy.

(B) I have >30 years of professional software development experience.
Do not call me a "kid", thanks very much, unless you have more than
that.

im just sick and tired of all these workarounds for MDB.

What workarounds? You've just shown that you don't know how to do some
simple things properly (the NULL problem). Learn how to use the product
properly, before you criticize it.

the platform is just a poor choice for ANYTHING.

That would come as a surprise to hundreds of thousands of users of
successful Access applicatiuons all over the world. It sounds like you
have not written any of those applications, though.

Almost as bad of a choice as Excel.

That would come as a surprise to hundreds of thousands of users of
successful Excel applications all over the world.


Aaron, here's a free tip - from someone with waaaaay more experience
than you seem to have:

Stop talking - start learning.

TC

 

[aatcbbtccctc]

Someone just emailed me virus exe and zip files, from an email address
containing your forname.

If this happens once again, I will immediately go here to report it:

http://www.ifccfbi.gov/cf1.asp

TC

 

[John Vinson]

Someone just emailed me virus exe and zip files, from an email address
containing your forname.

If this happens once again, I will immediately go here to report it:

A couple of things:

1. You posted this, not to a person, but to a couple of world-wide
technical support newsgroups.

2. The email almost certainly was "spoofed" - these viruses pick up
email address (from newsgroups, from an infected computer's contacts
list, etc.) and put them in the From: line, to conceal the actual
origin of the message. Nobody here was intentionally sending you a
virus.

3. With good antivirus software - you should be able to trap these
messages before they do any harm; with reasonable care (not opening
unvouched .exe or zip files) you can keep safe anyway.

John W. Vinson[MVP]

 

[TC]

A couple of things:

1. You posted this, not to a person, but to a couple of world-wide
technical support newsgroups.

I'm well aware of that. The person in question has aggressive arguments
in various newsgroups. It's not unreasonable to alert the participants
to this situation in case it happens to them.

2. The email almost certainly was "spoofed" -

I believe that it wasn't. The person in question was active on usenet
at the exact same time that the email was sent (going from posts he
made at the same time to other groups). The coincidence is, how shall I
put it, "surprising".

3. With good antivirus software - you should be able to trap these
messages before they do any harm; with reasonable care (not opening
unvouched .exe or zip files) you can keep safe anyway.

I'm well aware of that.

Cheers,
TC

 

[Tony Toews]

I believe that it wasn't. The person in question was active on usenet
at the exact same time that the email was sent (going from posts he
made at the same time to other groups). The coincidence is, how shall I
put it, "surprising".

Ahh, interesting.

FWIW I run my own web and email servers. It strips off all viruses
before I even see them. I was a bit surprised one time when I took a
look at the logs and realized someone had been sending me about 10,000
viruses per day for the past three weeks.

Tony
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[aaron.kempf]

ok.

well tony; you can keep on using your crap code if you want. I will
give you permssion.

but dont you think that it would be EASIER to not have to update
frontends every 30 seconds?

i mean-- everytime you change a query you need to update a frontend?

keeping everything in one place is much easier and higher performance

ADP against MSDE is the same price as MDB.

 

[Tony Toews]

but dont you think that it would be EASIER to not have to update
frontends every 30 seconds?

i mean-- everytime you change a query you need to update a frontend?

Big deal. Every time a query changes a form, report or module is also changed and
everything needs to be update.

keeping everything in one place is much easier and higher performance

Umm, you mean two places don't you. The ADP still contains the forms, reports and
modules doesn't it?

ADP against MSDE is the same price as MDB.

Sure, but ADPs and SQL Server/MSDE are signficantly more inconvenient and a higher
learning curve.

Tony
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[TC]

Holy crapola !! That sure is an awful lot of viruses !!!

I remember around the time when Code Red came out. I had recently
installed the ZoneAlarm personal firewall. One day, it started going
mad. After I while, I decided to try & see what was happening. I
managed to use netcap (from memory) to capture a few packets, & found
it was indeed Code Red. I got hit continuously, from all over the
world, for quite some time before it all died down. That was on a
dialup connection!

Cheers,
TC

 

[Tony Toews]

Holy crapola !! That sure is an awful lot of viruses !!!

Yeah, but the system never even noticed it. I looked at the CPU %
and it was only at a few %. Turns out they were all coming from the
same IP address so I just blocked that IP address from within the mail
server.

I remember around the time when Code Red came out. I had recently
installed the ZoneAlarm personal firewall. One day, it started going
mad. After I while, I decided to try & see what was happening. I
managed to use netcap (from memory) to capture a few packets, & found
it was indeed Code Red. I got hit continuously, from all over the
world, for quite some time before it all died down. That was on a
dialup connection!

Yeah, same for me for the Slammer/Blaster, the one that hit the SQL
Server port. On dialup too. All of a sudden I kept getting these
port probe messages on the SQL Server port that Friday evening. I
shrugged, kinda wondering if there was a virus and sure enough
Saturday morning there was.

Hence SQL Server is now part of Microsoft Update. <smile>

Tony
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Please respond only in the newsgroups so that others can
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