We love running stored procedures from our VBA code, but there is one issue you need to watch out for: Executing a procedure that affects data already loaded on your form. If you're not careful you will get the following message: Fortunately, it's an easy fix, here are some suggestions: Close the fo [...]
Have you ever had to decipher a database and identify which column has the data you need? I recently had to work with extracting data from a SQL database to use in Microsoft Access and Power Bi, unfortunately the naming structure of the database was not very intuitive. The only guide I had was a rep [...]
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 Client, it was pretty easy -- the Native Client had both OLEDB a [...]
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 September 11th 2018 I’m going to discuss: When you should or should n [...]
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 considerations. Sometime this gets suggeste [...]
Drag and Drop In MS Access Doug was on a roll in January of 2004 when he wrote his article on drag and drop in MS Access. He tested it now using Access 2016 and it still works. This article shows you how to add drag-and-drop to your Access application using combinations of multi-value and single-val [...]
For many developers, database security and Access control is just something that gets in the way of development work. However, several recent security breaches have had devastating consequences and have caused a change in attitude about the value to any organization of having database applications t [...]
Note: I'll be presenting on this topic at the Access with SQL Server group online. Please join me on September 13th at 6:30 PM CST, join the group to get an email with all of the meeting details, it’s free!
When we design Access with SQL Server solutions we almost always add CreatedBy and CreatedOn to all of our tables, allowing our clients to see who created records in the Access frontend. Script to add CreatedBy and CreatedOn Automatically to tables Many times we inherit SQL databases and we need a q [...]
[Update] There is a newer version of this post here. In our experience in using linked tables with Access, we get the best response using Native Client 11.0 with DSN-less tables. You could use ODBC 11 for SQL Server but then you would NOT be able to use ADODB, so we prefer the latter and not the for [...]
Occasionally we come across project requirements that include the ability to do sequential numbering in Access on a set of data. We cannot just use the auto-number data type because there is no promise of sequentiality but only uniqueness. In other words, if someone creates a record then later delet [...]
