by Jonathan Halder | Mar 27, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
Me: Write a humorous limerick about ChatGPT failing to do what is expected. ChatGPT: There once was a bot named ChatGPT, Whose answers could often betray. Asked for a rhyme, it stuttered in time, And left folks in quite the disarray. It pondered and whirred with great...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 26, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
Today I worked on optimizing a query for a client. it wasn’t super long, about 2 seconds, but that was enough to make a noticeable delay for the users running the database. I wanted to make it a little snappier. It ended up boiling down to one thing, but first I...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 18, 2023 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
Refactoring code is something I do often. Trying to find ways to make things simpler and more readable are two reasons of many that I do this. As I work on code and refactor it, I find myself continually, daily, using tools to find and replace code, and not quite as...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 6, 2023 | MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
I’ve been discussing how I use version control in 3 previous emails / articles which you can find here: Access Programming – What I do and Why (source control) | Access JumpStart Access Programming – What I do and Why (source control part 2) | Access JumpStart Access...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 7, 2022 | MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries
This error occurs because, drum-roll please…. The setting for this property is too long. So in this particular case, the developer was trying to create a long SQL string using multiple UNIONs with a complex query and trying to set this string to the RowSource...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 18, 2021 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries
I recently experienced a frustrating issue that had me scratching my head for a while. I had a PO form with a Line Item subform and I could edit lines and when I tried to delete a line it was removed from the subform. BUT… If I closed and reopened the same PO...
