Loose ODBC conection

I am very new to all this

I have a access databse wich uses a ODBC conection to mysql server. I
can open the and run the database find but if i leave the dadabase
loaded but do not use it when i go back to it is has lost the
conection and i need to close the databse and reopen it

If there a way to make sure i alwasy have a coenction

Thanks(S.Dickson@.shos.co.uk) writes:

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Originally Posted by

I am very new to all this
>
I have a access databse wich uses a ODBC conection to mysql server. I
can open the and run the database find but if i leave the dadabase
loaded but do not use it when i go back to it is has lost the
conection and i need to close the databse and reopen it
>
If there a way to make sure i alwasy have a coenction

That seems like an Access problem to me. Maybe you should ask in an
Access newsgroup.

Do you use MySQL or is that just a typo? This news group is for
MS SQL Server, and not MySQL.

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