Recently, Microsoft released two new drivers for SQL Server, a major upgrade: ODBC 18 Driver for SQL Server OLEDB 19 Driver for SQL Server That's great news! However, there is a major breaking changes that requires your attention. Specifically, they changed how the default settings work for the encr [...]
This is a six-part series of articles on ODBC tracing to help Access developers troubleshoot and work with Access when developing an application that uses ODBC data source(s), usually but not exclusively SQL Server. The series aims to demonstrate how to use the ODBC tracing to monitor ODBC SQL state [...]
I've always found Itzik Ben-Gan's excellent chart on the logical SQL processing immensely helpful in reasoning about the querying performance. Even though the chart was made for SQL Server, it still is applicable to any database engine that follow SQL Standard, which also includes Access database en [...]
7 Ways Microsoft Access Can Help Your Business Almost every business in the world uses Microsoft Excel. For creating simple spreadsheets, it’s probably the best piece of software in the world. But as a company grows and spreadsheets become more complicated, Excel will show its limitations. This is w [...]
[Update] Post has been updated to correct the maximum size of the database to 10 Gigs When should you use SQL Server with Access? (Hint: Almost always) Look, I’ve heard the phrase “When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail” and given that our specialty is Access with SQL Server at I [...]
Tuesday, October 14th – Working with XML Data Efficiently Ben Clothier, Access MVP and co-founder of the AccessUserGroups.org, will be presenting at this month's meeting for the SQL Server with Access Group. He will discuss working with XML data with an SQL Server backend. Earlier this year Ben post [...]
