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Take a Load Off Your Server with Access 2000+.  Includes examples of using XML in ADO.

Access 2000 allows you to generate persistent recordsets that can be stored on a local drive. This article demonstrates how to use these local recordsets to cache information for display in ComboBoxes or ListBoxes on Access forms.

An example of why this is important is a ComboBox that displays U.S. Post Office Zip Codes. If 25 local machines query the network database to get these Zip Codes every time they open a particular form, data traffic would slow the server unnecessarily. Using persistent recordsets, this can be handled locally. Processing Regnow E-Mail Orders using Outlook and Access The data can then be updated every week, or on demand.

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