by Jonathan Halder | Apr 9, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
Today I started working through using a transaction to cover another complex series of database transactions. One of my customers was receiving an error message that a record was already deleted during an import. In this case, the import process takes a while and if...
by Jonathan Halder | Apr 8, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
Today’s Access adventure involved refactoring code as an evolution from getting a particular set of line item records associated with a file to be processed when that file was selected from another form. In the first iteration of the code for testing, I was...
by Jonathan Halder | Apr 7, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries
In SQL Server you can count up the distinct values in a column of a query using syntax like: SELECT SalesPersonID, COUNT(DISTINCT CustomerID) As NumberOfDistinctCustomersServed FROM ClosedSales GROUP BY SalesPersonID This will give you the number of unique customers...
by Jonathan Halder | Apr 4, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
First of all I am notoriously bad at knowing when to quit. I keep trying things thinking I’m almost there and that I’ll get that code working in the next 5 minutes. Then 3 hours later I have a huge mess and it’s not done yet with me scratching my...
by Jonathan Halder | Apr 3, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
Today’s adventure in Access was a problem my customer was having with an imported file. Their shipment requests were being supplied via electronic delivery and then they send a confirmation via the same electronic delivery system. The recipient of the shipments...
by Jonathan Halder | Apr 2, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, Versioning
In today’s adventure, I have a complex application I am updating from an older version of our Access Jump Start application template from when we were calling it RDF (Rapid Development Framework). I am doing this so I will have access to some of the newer...
