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Microsoft Access is a powerful database that is part of the Microsoft Office package, and by combining its user-friendly ...

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 minutes ...