Re: View onto tables w/ identical key names

2005-07-01 Thread Martijn Tonies
Les, i am working on a database system where a number of tables (5-10) each with possibly hundreds of columns share an identical primary key name. the truth is if it weren't for a limitation in the number of columns in M$ Access (long story: we're creating a client server scheme so they

Re: View onto tables w/ identical key names

2005-07-01 Thread Les Schaffer
Martijn Tonies wrote: When creating the view, use CREATE VIEW viewname ( column names ) AS select [fields] Instead of *. This way, you can only return a single mat column instead of having that column twice in the view. i'll try that programmatically, no way am i typing close to 1000 field

Re: View onto tables w/ identical key names

2005-07-01 Thread Martijn Tonies
When creating the view, use CREATE VIEW viewname ( column names ) AS select [fields] Instead of *. This way, you can only return a single mat column instead of having that column twice in the view. i'll try that programmatically, no way am i typing close to 1000 field names into

View onto tables w/ identical key names

2005-06-30 Thread Les Schaffer
i am working on a database system where a number of tables (5-10) each with possibly hundreds of columns share an identical primary key name. the truth is if it weren't for a limitation in the number of columns in M$ Access (long story: we're creating a client server scheme so they can get