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The Joys of Combo Dropdown Group Headers

by Jonathan Halder | Sep 12, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries

What? Combo dropdown group headers? What voodoo is this? I have a combo box on a continuous form in an Item Description field. Each row on the continuous form can contain a line item that can be populated from different sources. There is a job estimate source where...

Access Object Names With Spaces and NiceDLookup

by Jonathan Halder | Sep 5, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding

So first things first.  It is not recommended that you use spaces or special characters in your table names as it can cause problems referencing them or cases that are ambiguous and may cause unintended results in the code. But maybe you have used them in the...

Access Primer for Businesses – way more than a database

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...

Troubleshooting an ODBC error in Access

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...

Finding the width of arbitrary text in Access VBA

by Jonathan Halder | Jul 11, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding

I’m revisiting my ListBox control work from these two articles: Access ListBox Row Source and Type | Access JumpStart ListBox Column size adjustments | Access JumpStart The second article discsusses how to adjust column sizes using the ColumnWidths property and...

Access Query to Excel Data table, quick!

by Jonathan Halder | Jul 8, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries

Sometimes my customers ask me for data from their database that they want to see in a way they’ve never looked at or needed to look at it before. When this happens to me and the answer is a data pull, I will often either pull up an existing query with the answer...
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