Follow Me on Twitter During the Microsoft MVP Summit Next Week It’s time to visit the mother ship again, a yearly ritual both Ben and I relish as part of our MVP title, where the Microsoft Access team will share the latest, (often under NDA, sorry), I get to meet my peers from around the world and d [...]
Using ADO Asynchronously in Microsoft Access to Speed up Forms Our presenter for the next meeting, on March 12th, is Ben Clothier. Ben will talk to us about using ADO asynchronously in Access. Have you had scenarios where you need to load large amount of data but you don’t want to make users wait f [...]
Listen to the Microsoft Access Podcast Episode 1 I've launched a podcast focused exclusively on the business use cases of Access. I felt there was already plenty of technical information online but a real lack of great examples as to why Microsoft Access is an awesome alternative to other technologi [...]
Having Issues with MS Access Crashing? Try These Solutions First If your copy of Access is crashing please try the following strategies to get it stable again: Make sure your PC has the latest updates, including updates for Microsoft Office Verify your PC does not have a reboot pending after install [...]
Access with Microsoft SQL Server – Import Large Datasets Using SSIS Dying with an Access Insert Query If you’ve ever tried to insert a large amount of records into SQL Server using an Access insert query, (15,000 records or more), you’re in for a long wait, were talking coffee break time here, (from [...]
Join us for the Microsoft Access with SQL Server Academy Part II Our first session in September had a great turnout, for our next session on Tuesday December 11th at -6 UTC time, (6:30 PM Chicago CST), comes part 2 where we will cover: – Creating views and optimizing them – Table linking strategies [...]
Join Me with Special Guest Michal Bar from the MS Access Team! Join me tomorrow November 13th at 6:30 PM live via web conference as I host Michal Bar, Senior Program Manager for MS Access at our monthly AUG meeting, come hear the latest Access news and learn about the revamped Link Table Manager! Fo [...]
Using SQL Views to Add/Edit Data in Microsoft Access This is part II of a two part series on views I've written, you can see part I here. Over the last couple of years I have had a great deal of experience with working on Access Databases with the Data is linked to tables in stored in SQL Server. Wi [...]
Detangling the New Microsoft SQL Server ODBC and OLEDB Drivers Some of you may already know that Microsoft backtracked on their planned deprecation of OLEDB and provided a new OLEDB driver. However, it can be a head-scratcher to figure what you should be using. When we were using SQL Server Native C [...]
Join Me For a Microsoft Access with SQL Server Academy Session We kick off the new season of Access with SQL Server group meetings this year with three months of training: Introduction, Intermediate and Advanced topics on how to optimize Access with SQL Server. Part 1: Introduction On Tuesday Septem [...]
Pitfalls to Avoid When Using the New Microsoft SSMA Version 7.8 Microsoft has been updating their SQL Server Management Assistants on a regular basis, and they just updated the SSMA for Access. However you can't see what's new for 7.8 in their official documentation. The latest version of SQL Server [...]
