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Question : Need to deploy/upgrade an Access application
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Folks,
Here's the scenario.
50 locations, all use a Access application, which is pretty much a bunch of forms and of course, the database - to print reports etc. There's a table in the DB that contains information specific to that location .. for example the location name, contact phone etc.
I've made a modification to this application and need to upgrade each location with the new .mdb file. How can I go about it without overwriting this one table that contains location-specific information?
Falling short of visiting each site and exporting/importing the data .. any smart idea's?
Thanks.
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Answer : Need to deploy/upgrade an Access application
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>How can I go about it without overwriting this one table that contains location-specific information? Couple of ways to pull this off:
Deploy an mdb, with a startup form that says 'click me to install an upgrade (1) Have a local 'location' table, with the changes you want to deploy, and a linked 'location' table to the one they have in production. Execute an update/append query that changes data in the linked 'location' table, based on the local 'location' table.
(2) Same scenario, but populate the local 'location' table with all data for all locations. Delete all from the 'linked' location table, append ONLY the appropriate site into that table.
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