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My musings on the phenomenon that is “Microsoft Access”

by Jonathan Halder | Feb 12, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features

Access is an interesting animal. It’s a Windows desktop app included in the Microsoft Office family originally touted as a low-code no-code relational database management tool. It received decent attention for a while, getting relatively serious new features...

Using Passthrough Queries for Reports in Microsoft Access

by Jonathan Halder | Feb 11, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding

There is no way to directly place Passthrough SQL into a Report RecordSource property. Reports want DAO recordsources and in some cases, need a table object to work off of. However, if you are using SQL server and want to utilize a SQL view, you can link it as a table...

Tabbed view – tabs vanish in Access

by Jonathan Halder | Feb 7, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding

Ok, should have done a screen shot, and I could go back and recreate it and get one, but not in the time I have right now… 😀 I was working in an app and had a Class outside of a form that had a function to get a reference to the form by name if it had been lost....

De-duping characters from strings in VBA again!

by Jonathan Halder | Feb 6, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding

Thanks to Cristian Buse a list subscriber and amazing VBA programmer. He replied to the message yesterday about duplicates and pointed me to this StackOverflow question and answer:...

VBA function to de-dupe spaces from a string

by Jonathan Halder | Feb 5, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding

I found myself in a position where I needed to be able to take an arbitrary string and remove consecutive spaces in a string, replacing them with one space each. Example:”7122A05 N62A N656″to: “7122A05 N62A N656″ This is a pretty simple problem...
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