by Jonathan Halder | Oct 7, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables
This morning I was working on a query for a customer report that took me longer than I expected and produced more problems than I expected. I actually had 3 tables named customers, orders, and payments. Customers can have multiple orders, and have a one to many...
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 | Sep 23, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
I’m working in Access today and I noticed that a confirmation dialog box I have set up to ask me as a developer if I really want to send an email was not working. Initially I thought it was because of a flag that was failing to get set, but that wasn’t it....
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...
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...
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...
