Samples of how to backup and recover your Access database

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Samples of how to backup and recover your Access database

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With these samples you will learn how to
Object Name Access Version	Topic	Object Type
frmIsDBopenDAO	Find out if anyone is using a database using DAO library. Good to see if you can open a database in exclusive mode.	Form
frmIsDBopenDAO	Find out if anyone is using a database using ADO library.	Form
frmAutoShutDown	Simple form that will shutdown the database every day at a certain time for administration	Form
frmCompactDatabase	Compacting database to another file - used for backup	Report
frmCompactEasy	Very simple form that provides a one button method to compact the current database	Report
frmGR8_unloadAll	Unload all tables in a database to comma delimited text files. Useful for additional backup of databases.	Form
frmUnloadADOxml	Unload all tables in an Access 2000+ database to XML format.	Form
frmBackupAllObjects	Demonstrate how to backup all queries, forms, reports, macro and modules to text files.	Form
basGR8_exportObjects	Module to backup all all queries, forms, reports, macro and modules to text files.	Module
basGR8_Startup	Includes openform and openreport functions, userlogging, find current path of database and change window headers.	Module

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