RE: [NF] Access and the Null Blues

2006-09-29 Thread Stephen the Cook
Jim Dettman <> wrote: > So I may be missing the point, but what is it exactly that your > complaining about? The fact that most MVP's don't know what their > talking about, that you don't know Access, or that the database is > not properly designed? Pick any two. Stephen Russell DBA / .Net

RE: [NF] Access and the Null Blues

2006-09-29 Thread Jim Dettman
Andy, What's the error? My guess is that you have a broken reference in VBA. Jim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Davies Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 7:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Access and the Null

RE: [NF] Access and the Null Blues

2006-09-29 Thread Jim Dettman
EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NF] Access and the Null Blues Ok, if you NZ() you can shove a value in for the null in access. Took 5 different MVPs before the sixth came in with that lit

RE: [NF] Access and the Null Blues

2006-09-29 Thread Stephen the Cook
Andy Davies <> wrote: >> Ok, if you NZ() you can shove a value in for the null in access. >> Took 5 different MVPs before the sixth came in with that little >> trick. > > I'm guessing this is a VB 'feature' and not specific to Access > (Verity Stob has a nice diatribe about the inconsistencies o

Re: [NF] Access and the Null Blues

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Kaye
Took me 5 minutes to figure out how to find the Immediate window. Didn't blow up here.. Echoed 5 to the screen. Perhaps you have the Access equivalent of a corrupt resource file? Andy Davies wrote: open Access (2003) -> vba window -> in the Immediate window type: ax = "asdf g" ? instr(ax, " "

Re: [NF] Access and the Null Blues

2006-09-29 Thread Andy Davies
--- Access and the Access blues!!! A user has a problem with Access which I traced to an expression in a query (probably bad data but...) - so I tried to verify the expression a step at a time - can anyone verify this: open Access (2003) -> vba window -> in the Immediate window type: ax = "asdf

Re: [NF] Access and the Null Blues

2006-09-29 Thread Andy Davies
> Ok, if you NZ() you can shove a value in for the null in access. Took 5 > different MVPs before the sixth came in with that little trick. I'm guessing this is a VB 'feature' and not specific to Access (Verity Stob has a nice diatribe about the inconsistencies of Basic - well worth googling for)

Re: [NF] Access and the Null Blues

2006-09-29 Thread Jean Laeremans
On 9/29/06, Stephen Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, if you NZ() you can shove a value in for the null in access. Took 5 different MVPs before the sixth came in with that little trick. Be careful ...you'll end up liking FoxPro A+ jml ___

[NF] Access and the Null Blues

2006-09-28 Thread Stephen Russell
Ok, if you NZ() you can shove a value in for the null in access. Took 5 different MVPs before the sixth came in with that little trick. I did it in the report via: =IIf(Len(Trim([Trouser 1] & ""))>0,1,0)+IIf(Len(Trim([Trouser 2] & ""))>0,1,0)+IIf(Len(Trim([Trouser 3] & ""))>0,1,0)+IIf(Len(Trim(