[thelist] Online Database Dumb Question

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Hello.

I have an online database to which entires are made by
ASP forms. Manual editing is possible.

I didn't create the system and don't know anything
about ASP or much about data bases.

I used Access to add some columns to the data base,
with an eye to manually adding information, using the
"Edit" function. These columns are unrelated to
anything called by the VBscript in the forms...they're
just sitting in the data base.

I used the regular form to create a data base entry
(new user) and it worked fine...making the right
entries in the dbase but having no effect, of course,
on the new fields.

I did not make any manually entries as I was merely
trying to see if the new columns came up right and if
the forms still worked.

But then, I was unable to rename, delete or replace
the dbase. Two ftp clients returned error notices
saying that the file was in use by another process
(although Access, IE, etc,. had been closed. The
support folks on my host had to reboot the site to
"unlock" the mdb file, which had "not closed
properly".

Can I not do what I'm trying to do, or is this just a
quirk?

Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
David


	
		
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