Working With Console Tools - Microsoft Access We recently had a project that required us to interact with console tools. People might have different terms for those type of tools so when I speak of console tools, I'm referring to a program or script that opens a command prompt and output stuff to th [...]
Creating Custom Microsoft Access Formulas and Using Them Effectively MS Access has a very powerful support for using expressions in your forms/reports’ controls. For example, showing a sum of some column can be as simple as putting down: =Sum([SomeColumn]) and we’re done! Now, sometimes, we don’t ha [...]
On May 13th, at 6:30 PM CST, I will be speaking about how you can easily create a solution that enable you to have your Access program working across broad geographic regions by leveraging SQL Azure Data Sync which is still in preview. In the talk, we will demonstrate how to get set up with replicat [...]
A lot of times, I write a stored procedure to do several things. More often than not, I might be doing mass inserts, updates or deletions. Now, I'm not your average suspenders-and-belt guy. No, I go one step further and insist on wearing an overall over my suspenders and my belt, thank you very much [...]
This is part two of our two-part series on working with XML data with a SQL Server backend. Part one can be found here. In part one, we showed how much simpler and effective it was to manipulate XML data by doing it directly in the SQL Server layer as opposed to front-end or middle-layer code. The i [...]
This is part one of a two-part series that discusses working with XML data with an SQL Server backend. Part two is discussed here. I've personally found XML files to be something of a bugbear. They're going to require some kind of transformation to get it in a format that's useful for importing or e [...]
In part one, Juan talked about the sequence of events fired when loading a form with a number of subforms in Access and how one can reduce the cascading effects of events being re-fired due to operations performed during the load. We will talk about how we can delay loading the subforms. By putting [...]
We talked about concatenating multiple records into a single string using FOR XML PATH and we also talked about EXISTS clause. Here's a practical example that incorporates both. In one of our projects, we have an archive database that contains historical data of select tables from the production dat [...]
We are specialists in creating Access to the cloud solutions using SQL Server. We therefore maintain a number of databases and our clients are constantly asking us for improvements. Of course, we require that those go through a full cycle of testing and deployment: We copy an existing database using [...]
This is second part of 2-part series on SQL clauses. Juan covered the IN() in the first part. We now turn to a close sibling, EXISTS clause. As Juan demonstrated, IN() can be useful for some situations where we want to match a subset of another table without necessarily changing the output due to jo [...]
Sometime we take over a project where the original developer used SQL Triggers on the tables and unfortunately, we tend to find that more often, the triggers are not written in most effective manner. I'd like to highlight few common mistakes I see made with using the triggers: Assuming only one row [...]
