Connection String Parameters for Text File Sources 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 [...]
Connection String Parameters for Excel Data Sources 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 [...]
Opening or Linking Text or Excel as Data Sources in Microsoft Access 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 ex [...]
Microsoft Office 365 Version 2009 May Break Your Database Application Microsoft has reported that they've disabled the feature which should then avoid the need to rollback the version. The new feature will be made available in version 2010, planned for end of October 2020. In meanwhile, it wi [...]
Microsoft Office 365 Build 1912 Breaks ODBC Linked Tables’ Identity **** Only applies to users on Access with SQL Server table links, otherwise this alert does not apply **** We are getting early reports that the build 1912/2001 released with Office 365 may break the ODBC linked table that contains [...]
We've gotten reports from our clients, our colleagues and other posters that there is a huge problem with the Office 365 update that was released yesterday (November 12, 2019). The update causes an error where it may say: "Query "" is corrupt" This post deals with both preventive and restorative mea [...]
NOTE: I will be talking about this topic in depth in the upcoming Access and SQL Server monthly webinar on July 9th at 6:30 PM CDT. Register so that you can view the process live and ask questions! As we work with several applications and sometime in a team, source code control is pretty impo [...]
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 [...]
Designing a Microsoft T-SQL Trigger On occasions when building a project involving an Access front-end and a SQL Server backend, we've run into this question. Should we use a trigger for something? Designing a SQL Server trigger for Access application may be a solution but only after careful conside [...]
Using Large Parameters for Microsoft SQL stored Procedure with DAO As many of you already know, SQL Server team has announced deprecation of OLEDB for SQL Server database engine (Read: we can't use ADO because ADO uses OLEDB). Additionally, SQL Azure does not officially support ADO, though one still [...]
Reporting More Granularly Than Usual - Microsoft Access Typically, when we do reporting, we usually do it at a higher granularity. For example, clients commonly wants a monthly report of sales. The database would store the individual sales as a single record, so it's no problem summing up the figure [...]
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