by Jonathan Halder | Jul 1, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, TDD, Versioning
Yesterday, I had found a method for CoPilot to see an entire database. In order to do this, all the objects of the database need to be exported to text files. This is an undocumented and unsupported feature of Access, but it has been there for a long time and is what...
by Jonathan Halder | May 28, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
I have a couple clients now who had emails they wanted to either send out on a scheduled basis, like every Thursday, and/or when certain events occurred, like importing a certain type of file with certain types of part numbers, or a po is updated and causes a project...
by Jonathan Halder | May 21, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
So far, I have the SDOpenAI Access Plugin reinstalled and purchased and entered in the license number. Good deal. I was able to create a function header with a descriptive line of Public Function GetDateXDaysPriorToToday(days As Single) As Date with a single for days...
by Jonathan Halder | May 1, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
If you have an interface class object and you implement several types of the object, what can you do when your object has no handler? That’s where the Null Object pattern comes into play. Here’s an example of how you could implement the Null Object Design...
by Jonathan Halder | Apr 10, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features
Day 1 Agenda: 1Access Community UpdateKarl Donaubauer2Programming Modern ChartsColin Riddington3Microsoft Graph APIMaria Barnes4VBE_ExtrasJohn Mallinson5News from the Access TeamMicrosoft Session 1 was a little scary, Frankly, Microsoft does not seem to want Access to...
by Jonathan Halder | Apr 9, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
Today I started working through using a transaction to cover another complex series of database transactions. One of my customers was receiving an error message that a record was already deleted during an import. In this case, the import process takes a while and if...
