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How to cripple Microsoft Access

by Jonathan Halder | Dec 12, 2025 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding

Let’s say you really want Access to go slow, maybe so it was unusable, maybe so it wouldn’t even work and corrupt your databases consistently. How would you do that? First, make sure you add in a LOT of latency. So create a front end Access database that...

Headless Access and Preventing startup recovery questions

by Jonathan Halder | Nov 3, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features

Ok, been a while since I last posted. This quarter I was really trying to revamp my processes to focus on getting billable stuff done. So my writing took a bit of a back seat while I tried to figure it out. Last week and this week I had 2 different clients that I had...

Frustrating 64-bit ACCDE failure fix found

by Jonathan Halder | Oct 3, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features

I was updating an app launcher to use Microsoft Graph instead of legacy Sharepoint API login credentials for authentication. The transformation went very smoothly and I was able to use Microsoft CoPilot with ChatGPT-5 mode to handle a lot of the grunt work! It...

Why you’ll always have a job as an Access developer

by Jonathan Halder | Sep 4, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding

Don’t be afraid to refactor something if it’s getting too complicated. One of my customers often will have new ideas for reports or forms in the Access app that would really help him make his business better and his life easier. Many times these ideas will...

A Day in The Life

by Jonathan Halder | Sep 3, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding

Ever wonder what a developer running a sole proprietorship does? Here’s a little snapshot of my life this week. This week i’ve been up to a couple of things: I’ve updated a client to provide a button to their navigation to open a particular query....

Avoiding Exclusive Access in Access: My Strategy for Seamless Updates

by Jonathan Halder | Aug 26, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding

Today I had a request from a customer with a database used for What If scenarios to allow him to do either do updates from the main tables consistently or to boot all other users out of their front ends so that he can do an update when one is required. The system is...
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