Check out all the BREAKING NEWS Ebo Quansah released at my last Access with SQL Server meeting: https://accessusergroups.org/blog/the-biggest-news-from-ebo-quansahs-march-9th-2021-presentation/ #msaccess Access MVP Summit This Week! March 29 through the 31st is the global MVP Summit, looking forward [...]
We love running stored procedures from our VBA code, but there is one issue you need to watch out for: Executing a procedure that affects data already loaded on your form. If you're not careful you will get the following message: Fortunately, it's an easy fix, here are some suggestions: Close the fo [...]
AccessUserGroups.org launched a new tool that will convert your Access queries over to TSQL: https://accessusergroups.org/blog/accesssqltool/ As a firm that specializes in converting Access to SQL Server, this tool will be a real time saver! But it gets better with the ability to also create a strin [...]
If you ever need to download the runtime kit for Access 2016 you will find it here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50040 If you expand the Details section you will see the following note: Note: There are multiple files available for this download. Once you click on the "Dow [...]
Lately, I've been finding myself using the Try pattern more and more. I really like this pattern because it makes for much more readable code. This is especially important when programming in a mature programming language like VBA where the error handling is intertwined with the control flow. Genera [...]
Heterogeneous queries is the reason why connection strings, especially ad-hoc connection string are important. In previous articles of the series, you saw how you could customize the connection parameters for connecting to Excel and text files. In the case of the text files, you can also describe th [...]
Access provides a second method of describing text files' schema by using system tables MSysIMEXSpecs and MSysIMEXColumns to save the specifications. In the previous article, I covered how schema.ini can be used to describe a text file's structure. The schema.ini involved an external text file impli [...]
Making a schema.ini to open or link text files from Access is one of two possible methods that can be used to work with data contained in the files from Access. In the previous article, we looked at the text file's connection string parameters. We also discussed the need to have additional schema in [...]
In the previous article I covered the connection string parameters for Excel data sources. We will now focus on the text files. There are different methods for describing text files' schema and using the information during opening or linking in Access. While Excel spreadsheets had some resemblance o [...]
In the previous article, I discussed how we can treat Excel and text files as if they were a database using DAO, and how we can open them without linking. Because they do not use ODBC drivers, their connection string will be formatted quite differently from what you might be accustomed to seeing for [...]
Access is a phenomenal tool for working with many data sources. You may have long known that you can easily import or export data in a wide array of formats. However, we had a scenario where we needed to process data from external data sources. The processing runs frequently so importing data would [...]
