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 [...]
One advantage a SharePoint list has over any ODBC data source is that Access can disconnect and re-connect and synchronize the local edits back to the server fairly seamlessly. It also provides a friendly conflict resolution management, all out of the box. This is available whether you're using a tr [...]
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 [...]
We develop solutions using Access on the desktop and SQL Server on the network for clients throughout the US. Our standard method is to log in to the client's network via VPN and program on their server since we couldn't program on our development machines using the credentials provided by our clien [...]
Authored by Ben Clothier The other day Juan needed my help with a query that required a special technique commonly known as the Strawberry query. He needed a way to match one group of records with the first occurrence of a item in another table. From that I decided to write this post to share the te [...]
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 [...]