Ummmm, Steve, Beth Israel hospital is in Boston..........:-)

Perhaps I can. I use one to show the Bill to the user. I would need to massage that one to enable the BOMNUM creation I talked about earlier, but...

Thanks for the reply.

Believe it or not, before I created this table structure and update routine I did read your article (quite informative, really good ideas) and some of...

Thanks for the responses. I understood from researching that the memory usage grew as needed and was only released when the OS requested it back (but thanks for confirming), but...

Give some specifics. Why do they work better? I'm not trying to harass you, but I have had many discussions like this over the years and haven't heard very many...

If that is true, then why not a VB front end to an Access backend. If you program correctly the data store should be immaterial.

Not true in a general sense, as long as you don't have issues with user's not having Access licenses then Access can be better than VB (and other languages). Depends...

Not really answering your question (seems like the previous post's did that), but i am curious what you will use for a UI now. Are you sticking with Access, or...

I have to agree with Jerry, getting the job done is very important to me and should be to anyone who has any pride. I have my own stories about...