Inspect the Control Source of All Controls in Your MS Access Project Happy New Year! Recently I was working on a project where I was implementing form spawning so that my client can see at least two different records using two identical forms, one of the actual forms and the other one a spawned vers [...]
Join Me at the PAUG Database Designer Conference On Sunday - April 29, 2018 -, between 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM, I will be speaking at the annual PAUG Conference. Registration is open. Register now! Hurry, seats are limited & quickly sell out! This year promises to be the best! The dates for the PAUG [...]
Microsoft OLE DB Undeprecated! Long Live ADO! The Microsoft SQLNCli team has undeprecated OLE DB and the news could very well be earth shattering for the Microsoft Access community. Previously deprecated and last supported with SQL Client 11, OLE DB was on it's last breaths, and what was worse, we c [...]
Our Microsoft Ignite Session Recording is Now Available to View! Hello everyone! I just got back from Microsoft Ignite, where Michal Bar and I had a wonderful time presenting on "Learn new ways to apply Access to the modern Microsoft ecosystem". We discussed a few great topics, one of which is how t [...]
Meet Michal Bar and Me at Microsoft Ignite! This week Microsoft has invited me to speak at Microsoft Ignite along with Michal Bar from the Microsoft Access team! I'll be in Orlando all week learning about new technologies and on Wednesday afternoon present on how to plug Access into the modern Micro [...]
Updates From the Microsoft Access Team (June 2017) New data connectors Announcement blog post on the Access blog. It has also been twitted here - feel free to retweet it! New in Microsoft Access: Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce connectors. Learn more: https://t.co/NesijpM5uG — MS Office News (@Off [...]
Drag and Drop In MS Access and Conditional Sorting Drag and Drop In MS Access Doug was on a roll in January of 2004 when he wrote his article on drag and drop in MS Access. He tested it now using Access 2016 and it still works. This article shows you how to add drag-and-drop to your Access applicati [...]
Official Microsoft Access Tech Blog is Now Online! Official Microsoft Access Tech Blog Launches! In addition to the blog on the Office site, the Access team has started a technical blog here. The new Access Tech Blog will be more technical in nature and oriented towards technical users instead of re [...]
Using Large Parameters for Microsoft SQL stored Procedure with DAO As many of you already know, SQL Server team has announced deprecation of OLEDB for SQL Server database engine (Read: we can't use ADO because ADO uses OLEDB). Additionally, SQL Azure does not officially support ADO, though one still [...]
Learn How to Spawn Forms in Memory (Yes, You Heard That Right) Hi Everyone! This Tuesday I’m going to demo an amazing concept: How to spawn multiple copies of the same form in memory. Have you ever wanted to display multiple orders or invoices in your databases in separate forms using the same form [...]
MayBeSQL Coming to Microsoft Access! In a stunning development, Microsoft Access will debut a new version of SQL called MayBeSQL, in response to the market clamoring for more NoSQL solutions. Originally, NoSQL meant "No SQL" but in more recent iterations, has come to mean "Not Only SQL". The change [...]
