Data Access Page

[Guest]

I think it would be helpful to have a category of Data Access Pages on this
discussion board.



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http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...-a7eb-4062640043a0&dg=microsoft.public.access

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

There is a data access page newsgroup. If you can't get to it using
Microsoft's web-based interface, you can get to via Google ...

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.access.dataaccess.pages

 

[aaron.kempf]

why can't you get to it from microsofts webbased interface?

let me guess.. because xls dorks rule redmond?

 

[Guest]

I am grateful to know this. However, I would like to point out that this
appears to be a group maintained through Google (I had to get a Google
password, and it's not as clean of totally garbage posts as this one tends to
be.)

That's OK from my standpoint as a user--at least someone is out there
(hopefully) giving advice on this theoretically helpful aspect of Access. At
least the books say it can work.

But my suggestion remains that I wish there were such a category HERE, on
this newsgroup.

 

[Douglas J Steele]

The group to which Brendan pointed IS a Microsoft newsgroup, even if you're
accessing it through Google.

Far better than either the Microsoft web-based interface you're using, or
the Google web-based interface is to use a proper newsreader (there are
many, such as Outlook Express, Forte Agent, Thunderbird) and look at what's
on server msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

There's the newsgroup - which is a Microsoft-sponsored newsgroups - and then
there are the various means of interacting with the newsgroup - Google,
other web-based interfaces, and newsreader programs, as Doug describes
elsewhere in this thread.

If Microsoft's web-based interface does not provide a means to access the
data access pages newsgroup, then I agree that it should do so. But in my
opinion all web-based interfaces are a very poor substitute for real
newsreader programs.

 

[aaron.kempf]

i think that MS is trying to kill DAPs and i think that they owe us a
refund