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 suggested as a way to keep the business logic within database, rather than the application. Normally, I like having the business logic defined …Read More
SQL Server with Access Articles, tips and tricks
Drag and Drop In MS Access and Conditional Sorting
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-value controls. Supporting Custom Sort Orders Presenting data to your users in an order that …Read More
Questions About SQL Server Security and Access Control You Were Too Shy to Ask
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 organisation of having database applications that meet industry standards for access control and security. The problem, however is in admitting that you have a problem and finding answers to those …Read More
Avoid number conflicts with SQL Sequences
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!Read More
Insert CreatedBy and CreatedOn in any missing tables
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 quick way to add both fields to all tables in the database. To that end we use the following …Read More
Ways To Do Sequential Numbering in Access
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 deletes it, there will be a gap in the sequence. So, what are our options? There are actually several ways, each …Read More
Create Delete and Update Audit Tables in SQL Server
This is a modification to an earlier tip I wrote, whereas this code will only record delete changes, my earlier article will record delete and update changes to the data. I found code online by Brett Kaiser and I modified it for my purposes, with a mind to other Access developers I made some changes which I will explain here. Note: This article assumes you’re familiar with SQL Server tools …Read More
SQL Server update breaks Access application
UPDATE 12/3/14: Please visit Darren’s blog for the latest on this issue, than come back here to see some solutions to this problem. You can visit Darren’s blog here. My inbox has been flooded by reports around the world of Access suddenly being slow or unusable after the latest set of patches issued by Microsoft. Turns out one of the patches for SQL Server will in effect render Access applications using …Read More
