I don't usually, but... 10036

Then you obviously haven't "used it very hard".

And before you regurgitate the word 'moderate', I mean anything more than:

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 GOTO 10

I can see you're an expert in the underated art of relational database design.. And I hereby submit and bow to your comprehensive decade of 'Access database' programming Prowest..

That's whyuncrippled softwarefollows atrueclient-server model..

Why suffer jets' record locking issues, when you can pay huge licence fees to use sql-server?

(If you'd really been using Access for a decade DFS, you'd have learn't to wrappers for practically everything Jet related by now)..

If you've really been using access for a decade DFS, then you'll know that, *THAT* particular *HACK* is to protect against losing *ALL* your customers valuable data.. As well as 'pretending' you have at least some basic level of encapsulation.. (I bet you use the Import-Export wizards for your "backups" too)..

As an access database developer I'd like to sum up that perticular "RAD" system in one sentence:

"If I didn't go home to FreeBSD, I'd swear I was already in hell.."

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Sorry for the rant gang. access database *ALWAYS* brings out my dark side..

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