by Jonathan Halder | Oct 4, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
The Access 97 database I was trying to get working on my 365 Access was written to scramble data in existing tables in a destructive way so that users of a forum or other developers could look at code without seeing sensitive data. I copied some large tables I had...
by Jonathan Halder | Oct 3, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, Versioning
Thanks to a reader of Jon’s Access List, Xevi from Girona in Spain, I received a converted version of the Access 97 Data Scrambler database. The reader used Access 2010 to update the database to a format that could be read by the most recent versions of Access,...
by Jonathan Halder | Oct 2, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access
I didn’t think this would be a showstopper, but guess what, it is! If you have a version of Access later than 2010, you cannot open an Access 95 or Access 97 database at all. You get a fun error message: And it won’t do anything with the database at all. I...
by Jonathan Halder | Oct 1, 2024 | Blogging
I have been following a system for several years now called EOS or Entrepreneurial Operating System: EOS – Entrepreneurial Operating System for Businesses, home of Traction tools & library (eosworldwide.com) It has helped me create a rythym to my work life,...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 30, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
Our Access application framework that Steve and I developed and use to build our apps is called Access JumpStart. It does not include vbWatchdog by default for those who buy our framework, but it contains code to work with vbWatchdog if the developer of the app has...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 27, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
After my message yesterday, I updated my strategy a little bit. Yesterday, I added the code to my global error handler that is always called by vbWatchdog. I created a Call Stack string variable every time there was an error regardless of how it was going to get...
