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	<title>Cypris' lookout &#187; Database</title>
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		<title>Access: checking blank variables</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/access-checking-blank-variables/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often have to test String, Variant or Object variables that have no content and could be considered &#8216;blank&#8217;. The problem is that testing for &#8220;blankness&#8221; can mean many different things to different types: For an Object type, the variable can be Nothing. For a String type, the string can have no content at all: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Access: Run-time Error 3155 ODBC insert on a linked table failed</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/access-run-time-error-3155-odbc-insert-on-a-linked-table-failed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/access-run-time-error-3155-odbc-insert-on-a-linked-table-failed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been spending a lot of time trying to find out why some of the code used to insert new records into a linked SQL Server table would systematically fail with an error: Run-time Error '3155' ODBC--insert on a linked table failed It was driving me mad. I could insert a simple record using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Access vs SQL Server: some stats (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/access-vs-sql-server-some-stats-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the perspective of upsizing my current Access 2007 application, I have been trying to understand a bit more about the possible performance impact of various choices of Primary Keys. My problem is that currently, the Access application uses autoincrement numbers as surrogate Primary Keys (PK). Since I will need to synchronise the data over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sysadmin: SQL server performance madness</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/sysadmin-sql-server-performance-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just lost 2 days going completely bananas over a performance issue that I could not explain. I&#8217;ve got this Dell R300 rack server that runs Windows Server 2008 that I dedicate to running IIS and SQL Server 2008, mostly for development purposes. In my previous blog entry, I was trying some benchmark to compare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Access: building &#8216;upsizable&#8217; applications.</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/access-building-upsizable-applications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you start building an Access application, it&#8217;s tempting to just think about today&#8217;s problem and not worry at all about the future. If your application is successful, people will want more out of it and, over time, you&#8217;ll be faced with the task of moving the back-end database to a more robust system like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MS Access: upsizing to SQL Server 2008</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/ms-access-upsizing-to-sql-server-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2009/ms-access-upsizing-to-sql-server-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently researching ways to move my main MS Access application from a simple local network client/backend setup to a global, multiple remote sites configuration using SQL Server. One of the challenges is to upsize the current MS Access 2007 backend database to SQL Server 2008. If you try it from Access itself using the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 2008 / Windows 7 x64: The &#8216;Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0&#8242; provider is not registered on the local machine.</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/windows-2008-the-microsoftjetoledb40-provider-is-not-registered-on-the-local-machine/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/windows-2008-the-microsoftjetoledb40-provider-is-not-registered-on-the-local-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are times when the coexistence of 64 and 32 bit code on the same machine can cause all sorts of seemingly strange issues. One of them just occurred to me while trying to run the ASPx demos from Developer Express, my main provider of .Net components (the best supplier I&#8217;ve ever been able to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>SysAdmin: Installing Windows Server 2008 x64 on a Macbook Pro</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/mac-installing-windows-server-2008-x64-on-a-macbook-pro/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/mac-installing-windows-server-2008-x64-on-a-macbook-pro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My trusty old gigantic Sony Vaio is about 4 years old. It served me well and still works but it&#8217;s about to become my main development machine for the next couple of months and I can&#8217;t afford to have it die on me during that time. It was time to get something as gigantic and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>MS Access: checking network paths without freezing your application</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-access-checking-network-paths-without-freezing-your-application/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-access-checking-network-paths-without-freezing-your-application/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=93</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Access programming is inherently single-threaded. That&#8217;s usually OK as most operations are sequential anyway and it keeps things simple at the programming level. There are times though where the lack of ability to run code on another thread is sorely missing: anything that takes a long time to run will just freeze the application, making [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>MS Access: Enhanced Message Box Replacement</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-access-enhanced-message-box-replacement/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-access-enhanced-message-box-replacement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 10:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=76</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This project provides a custom and enhanced message box replacement for the default MsgBoxfound in Access. A Test database for Access 2007 is available at the bottom of this post. (Updated Tuesday 17MAR2009.) What&#8217;s wrong with the default MsgBox The default message box in Access is sometimes useful to warn, inform or ask confirmation from [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>MS Access: Restarting and compacting the database programmatically</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-access-restarting-the-database-programmatically/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-access-restarting-the-database-programmatically/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 03:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=73</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous article about changing the MS Access colour scheme I had the need to allow the user to restart the database after the colour scheme was changed. (Article and Code Updated 13FEB2009.) Being able to cleanly restart and compact the application is also useful in other instances: Changes made to the environment Recovering [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>MS Access: Changing the Color Scheme programmatically</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-access-changing-the-color-scheme-programmatically/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-access-changing-the-color-scheme-programmatically/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 13:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nkadesign.com/?p=72</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Office 2007 comes with 3 colour (color) schemes. Users can easily change it but when you deploy an Access application under the Runtime your users have no way to set the colour scheme as the application&#8217;s options are not available. Luckily for us, Office 2007 stores the global colour scheme setting in the registry [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>MS Access: Modal Dialogs with Transparent Backgrounds (redux)</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-access-modal-dialogs-with-transparent-backgrounds/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-access-modal-dialogs-with-transparent-backgrounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 11:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Access Team made an interesting post and a follow-up on how to add a transparent layer that cover the screen to focus the attention of the user to a login form or other important popup window. The trick is to use some WIN 32 API calls to modify the transparency of a standard MS [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>MS SQL Server Express: a good choice?</title>
		<link>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-sql-server-express-a-good-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-sql-server-express-a-good-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Renaud</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nkadesign.com/2008/ms-sql-server-express-a-good-choice/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft SQL Server comes in many editions, ranging from completely free to use and distribute to versions costing tens of thousands of dollars. For small businesses, or when you can live with the limits imposed, the Express edition is one option to consider. Here are some reasons why SQL Server Express may be a good [...]]]></description>
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