by Jonathan Halder | Jul 15, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning
Today, I was thinking more about using AI and Access. Particularly VBA, but I’d also like to be able to see if AI can understand my exported Access object files (I’m using OASIS SVN to export the Access objects currently, but there are other apps that can...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 30, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning
Just now I was thinking it sure would be nice if CoPilot could analyze my Access database and give me tips on things. So I tried an experiment. I asked CoPilot if it could create databases or if I could upload my database for it to analyze. It thought it would be able...
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 16, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
This is an entire planet to explore in and of itself. There are multiple layers of sharing when it comes to creating Access databases and applications with multiple users. Although fraught with land mines, users can use the same Access front end at the same time. This...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 12, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Ok, so this really doesn’t qualify as test driven development because a key of that discipline is to automate your tests. That means you actually would have a set of functions that would automatically test various things as you create them and you leave those...
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...
