Your right, its a logisitics problem.............constrained to a network structure as afas as i can tell....

At the moment their is no table structure, just a discourse....

......i presume some sort of flag would be in place (pretty much left up to me to decide i think)...

Anyone?

Thanks for that.

Do you have any references for some informative sites, i.e. just some basics to get me going. im not actually implementing this practically, its more of a theoretical...

Thanks, possibly a bit vague, may need something a bit more general, i.e. a solution which covers databases in general rather than just an sql server solution.

Has some basic...

>>Andrew, why are you asking on how to load pictures, when you actually >>want to play media files?

Confusion! i need to do both!

Just need to know the equivalent for...

Image1.Picture = LoadPicture(File1.Path & "\" & File1.FileName)

Anyone know what the above would be using a Windows Media Player plugin (named media1)

Would it be something like...

media1.currentMedia = LoadVideo(File1.Path & "\" &...

Yeah, an example would be good......

and how would i go about pointing to the field to the file/directory?

Or ive heard I could simply use an HTTP pointer to retrieve the image/video from a file rather than storing it in a database?

Is this maybe an easier option? Certainly...

Is there a spcific source from where you got these examples?

not really got one to hand right now, im just thinkin out loud at the moment........

OK, basically making ent1 = ent2+ent2+ent4;

etc etc......

make sense?

.....basically I want to format ent1 in tableA and need it to have the same formatting in tableB. Is the addition of a foreign key constraint enough to do this?

Not essentiall, but im familiar with it and have used it before successfully....so I think Ill stick with it. Thanks for the link.....

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