Hosting on the web is a hit or miss, you will find a wide range of providers, from dirt cheap hosting companies that will lump you in with hundreds of other databases, to premier firms that will rent you a server all for your self. Many traps to avoid If you're not careful you may end up with a host [...]
Our Access/SQL Server/SharePoint practice benefits from great tools on the web, some free and some not, and I'd like to share our experiences with you. LogMeIn.com (Free) and LogMeIn Ignition (Subscription) for Windows We usually use the Remote Desktop Connection when working with our client's syste [...]
Those of you caught with the Windows 7 SP1 bug that rendered your development computer useless for Access 2007, (including yours truly), can read up on the official Microsoft response to the issue here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2011/10/03/yes-we-made-a-mistake-and-are-finally-going-to- [...]
I was selected to be a guest blogger on the official Microsoft Access blog! You can read the article here: http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-access/archive/2011/11/28/display-real-time-information-with-the-controltip-property.aspx Please read and come back here for some final thoughts on the techn [...]
A while back I wrote about a Inner Join technique using a date range. (You can find that post here.) Today I'm going to take it a step further and discuss using inner joins to another query and conclude with an issue in Access you may shed some light on. Using Queries as Inner Joins For the longes [...]
A while back I talked about a problem one of my clients was having with Windows 7 64 bit and Access 2010/2007. It was terribly slow and unacceptable. You can see the original post here. Solution Found - Turn off the LLMNR Protocol My client waited long and hard to get this resolved, but Microsoft di [...]
Creating a primary key using that is also a auto increment field in code can be challenging. This article will discuss how to do so in two steps.
I'll be presenting on using Access with SQL Server as a business intelligence, (BI), tool and will cover the following three areas: Using SQL Server as a dashboard agregator with Access Creating powerful Crosstab queries in Access Using Pivot Table Tools Creating Sub-Totals in both Crosstab and Pivo [...]
I use SQLOLEDB a lot in my code, thinking I was bypassing some of the ODBC stack. Now it turns out we can use ODBC after all in our connection strings. Here is the post from Microsoft: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2011/08/29/microsoft-aligning-with-odbc.aspx It's probably g [...]
The other day I asked Ben to help me with a thorny problem, I needed to match records in one table with records in another table using a date range. Here's the table I needed to update, called tblWidgets: WidgetID DateProduced WidgetWeekID ------- ------------ ---- 1 1/2/11 2 1/16/11 3 1/31/11 Widge [...]
He's gone. And we are all fortunate to have had him with us, just as we had Einstein, Edison, Pasteur, and many others. Men of impact, men who expanded their world to touch the next one in the future and bring it back. Steve had taken calligraphy classes and had wanted the same effect on the Mac, wh [...]