Re: Bitten by a strange bug...

2002-09-03 Thread Nicholas Stuart
I had this problem to but was never able to find what was causing it. The way I got around it was by doing execute statements like: connection.execute("INSERT INTO .") That way I avoided VB handling the updates and it worked. But since Josh pointed this little problems "solution" out I might g

Re: Bitten by a strange bug...

2002-09-03 Thread Joshua J . Kugler
Tom - I'll address what I can I had the same problem with fields being truncated on direct connections (the problem does not manifest on ODBC table attaches in Access). IIRC, the way to "solve" this problem is to make sure the "optimize columns widths" (option 1) in the ODBC properties.

Bitten by a strange bug...

2002-08-28 Thread Tom Emerson
I've been pounding my head against a wall for the last couple of days trying to make a "simple" program work (to then use as the basis for future programs, etc. -- in other words, "I'm still just learning this stuff") I'd really like to "point the finger" at Microsoft & visual basic, but I've bee