by Jonathan Halder | Aug 27, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
There are of course a multitude of uses for a relational database system. Remember that although natively Access defaults to storing data relationally in tables using the file based ACE system (Access Connectivity Engine), it can really use any ODBC or OLE DB...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 23, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
I was posting some information on the Option Compare statement in Access VBA and was trying to find more information about the Option Compare Database default option and what exactly it means. From the online Microsoft VBA documentation: Option Compare Database can...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 12, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
I watched half of a new Access Users Group video on the tree view control by Pete Poppe which I link to at the bottom of this message. I learned something new. The last time I used the Treeview control I never ended up implementing it in a customer’s project...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 6, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
Access Error (3155) ODBC: “Query timeout expired”. It happened when trying to insert a new record into a linked table called “order” I’m using ODBC driver 17 in this case and it happened twice. Not sure if the user tried to do it twice or...
by Jonathan Halder | Jul 30, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
Yesterday, I was talking about the BeforeUpdate form event and BeforeUpdate Access control event as ways I was looking at triggering a validation function and then canceling the event so the update would not occur. A reader wrote in to mention usage of the Change...
by Jonathan Halder | Jul 24, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features
It’s important to choose the right tool for the right job. What about Microsoft Access? When is it the best or at least a good tool for the job? Or turning around the question, what are the best jobs to use Access for? The first thing to remember is that Access...