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Concatenate in MS Access

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Concatenate in MS Access, when to do it

grantunderland	6 Sep, 2008 - 10:16 PM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 14 Jun, 2008 Posts: 23 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	Just wondering, in general, when is the best time to concatenate? For example, I have 3 fields: FirstName, MiddleI, and LastName. I will always display them as First M. Last, so which is going to give best performance in a table with ~1000 records; concatenating in the query, or in the form/control?
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Damage	RE: Concatenate In MS Access 7 Sep, 2008 - 03:25 AM Post #2
D.I.C Addict Joined: 5 Jun, 2008 Posts: 754 Thanked: 7 times Dream Kudos: 75 My Contributions	As far as I know it's more efficient to do it in the control, especially if the database is not resident on the machine.
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grantunderland	RE: Concatenate In MS Access 8 Sep, 2008 - 06:09 PM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 14 Jun, 2008 Posts: 23 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	Thanks for the info. Thats the way I want to go anyways, but just wanted to make sure I'm getting the best performance I can.
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