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Access/SQL:How to satisfy the underlying record

Even tho this is a Sql Blog, the following actually is related... Many developers will often use Microsoft Access as a viable Front End to Sql Server instead of using VB or even VB dotNet. This is often a quick way to leverage rapid development. However if you've ever used Access you'll quickly find that it's not the friendly little IDE that it claims to be. When you attempt to leverage it's power as bound data application, you'll often find yourself wrestling within the clutches of it's Before Update, Current and After Update Events. I can say you haven't known how to really hate, until you've battled it out with these events. In a simple application it all works fine, in a typical Access MDB format, binding data to forms is common and relatively easy and painless. Try it with an ADP (Access Data Project). The Before Update event can easily be avoided and replaced with a database trigger. Trigger's to Sql Server are what Before Update