Question : Application.Quit leaves MSACCESS.EXE in memory?

Using Access 2003, I have error-handling code in procedures which, when an error is encountered, displays a message box to inform the user that there is a problem, and then executes the following line:

Application.Quit acSaveNone

What is happenning about 20% of the time when this logic is executed is that the application seems to close - it vanishes from the screen and no longer appears in the taskbar - however Access itself remains in memory.  It is still present in the Task List.  The other 80% of the time it works as expected.

When it fails, I get a message along the lines of "The command or action"quit" is not available now".

The fact that Access is still in memory is a problem when attempting to restart the application following an error.

Is there a better method to use instead of Application.Quit?  What reasons are there why the Quit command might not be "available now"?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer : Application.Quit leaves MSACCESS.EXE in memory?

Using command line tools to export data from a MySQL database into a CSV file is quite easy. Here's how:

mysql -uexampleuser -pletmein exampledb -B -e "select * from \`person\`;" | sed 's/\t/","/g;s/^/"/;s/$/"/;s/\n//g' > filename.csv

Here is some sample output of the above:

"id","username","group","password"
"1","tux","admin","5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99"
"2","tlugian","admin","5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99"
"3","saiyuki","admin","5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99"
"4","fred","staff","5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99"
"5","barney","staff","5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99"
"6","wilma","admin","5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99"

And now for the explanation:

Starting with the MySQL command. I wont explain the -u and -p options they are straight forward (if in doubt man mysql). The -B option will delimit the data using tabs and each row will appear on a new line. The -e option denotes the command to run once you have logged into the database. In this case we are using a simple SELECT statement.

Onto sed. The command used here contains three seperate sed scripts:

s/\t/","/g;s/^/"/        <--- this will search and replace all occurences of 'tabs' and replace them with a ",".

;s/$/"/;    <--- This will place a " at the start of the line.

s/\n//g    <---- This will place a " at the end of the line.

After running the result set through sed we redirect the output to a file with a .csv extension.