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i did 70-210 self guided recently, and passed.. i'd recommend the transcender practice exams. oh and getting practice in with all the commands is a good idea as well. I used the osborne study guide and found it quite good.

Thanks for the tips, but it didnt work quite the way i intended it.. i want to stay on the same form. i have a field on the form that is from the database that shows the number of a record that is related to it. i want to be able to click on a button next to that field and have it go to that...

hi, i have simple database where some records are related to others. i want to be able to put a button on the form to pickup the related value out of a field (integer at the moment) and use that number to go to the record with the same ID (auto assigned). I understand how to make the button but...

thanks mate. thats what i wanted. i should have looked properly. i'm sure that wasnt there in 8.9.3

try getting rid of NIS, i dont know if it will help, but i doubt you will be using it so its not going to hurt (much).

I am trying to change the daemon options for sendmail 8.11.2 so that i can run it on a different listen port (say 2025). i have managed with another version of sendmail (8.9.3) by putting this define(`confDAEMON_OPTIONS',`Port=2025,Addr=127.0.0.1') in the sendmail.mc file, but when i try to...

well, you could shell it like shell cmdString and in your command string you could > to a file so your command string might be something like "dir /a >lala.tmp" and then you read lala.tmp for return status. i know this is a crap way to do it, but i cant help more than than. might give...

yes, i got that far.. can i just use SELECT [Companies and Staff].Staff FROM [Companies and Staff] WHERE ((([Companies and Staff].Company)=[Problems].Company)) ORDER BY [Companies and Staff].Staff; somehow i doubt it. i dont know how to access the selection of the company from the other...

yeh, i found that out the hard way. thanks though. i havent quite figured out how to do it on the form yet. I'm working on it. -Blue

ok, i made a query and its a heaps better way to get alist of companies. now my problem is that i dont know how to find out the name of the combo box that is in my "Problems" table. the field name is "Company" SELECT [Companies and Staff].Staff FROM [Companies and Staff]...

Thanks very much mate, that helps alot. I know a bit of VB, so if i can figure out where to put it i should be ok. and yes, i know that i was doubling up on data, but i hadnt thought of using a query to get it out.. thats a good idea.

i have three tables, one has a list of companies and staff like so: companies staff comp1 staffmember1 comp1 staffmember2 comp1 staffmember3 comp2 staffmember1 etc... one has a list of companies (same ones as the comp & staff) comp1 comp2 comp3 etc.. and the other is...