by Jonathan Halder | Jun 26, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries
I had never heard of a cross join, but was exploring ways to put some complex calculations into other calculations in a nested fashion on SQL server. SQL does not allow you to reference a calculated column to calculate another column, but this method allows you to add...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 26, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries
This was the technique I ended up using in my query which inspired this article. Again, I had help from Copilot to author the following article about using the CTE (Common Table Expression) syntax: When writing SQL queries, especially those involving multiple layers...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 20, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
I was asked by a customer to mark fields in red that changed each week in a report. So what strategy did I come up with? Well first I need to store the data from the original run of the report. The customer wants to know what changed since the last automated report...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 10, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
I find myself annoyed with my younger self as I slough through multiple views and queries to slightly change some things so that I can get a similar result set with slightly different customer requirements. Simply put, in this case, the main issue is that I have 2...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 5, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
Today I updated a form and added a new filter textbox to it to allow the customer to specify part of a part number and filter a list of CSV files that contain that part number. It’s actually already processed these files and the data for all part numbers is in a...
by Jonathan Halder | May 6, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
Yesterday I mentioned a technique I use to hide repeated report fields: https://www.accessjumpstart.com/hiding-duplicate-records-using-running-totals-over-a-group/ Today, I will discuss another technique I use to update fields on a form based on columns in a combo box...
