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 [...]
Exclusive! Join us With Our Guest Michal Bar, Access Program Manager Exclusive! Join us on Tuesday March 14th at 6.30pm CST with our guest Michal Bar, Microsoft Access Program Manager at Microsoft! Learn about the future of Access, see demos on new features the Access team has worked on and get answ [...]
Microsoft Access DevCon in Vienna Austria April 1st - 2nd, 2017 This year Access MVP Karl Donaubauer has invited me to speak at his first Access DevCon in Vienna on April 1st and 2nd 2017. Karl has many years of producing similar events in German but this time around it's in English and I'm really e [...]
If you Could Ask the MS Access Team Any Question, What Would it Be? Next month Ben and I are once again traveling to the MVP Summit at Microsoft headquarters for our annual pilgrimage to the mothership. It's a wonderful affair were we get wined and dined and fawned over by Microsoft, and of course m [...]
dBase Support is Back in Microsoft Access! After an overwhelming outcry from the user community, Microsoft has again added support for dBase import into Access! The feature will only be for Office365 users but they plan on rolling it out to everyone eventually. Check out the official announcement he [...]
Note: I'll be presenting on this topic at the Access with SQL Server group online. Please join me on September 13th at 6:30 PM CST, join the group to get an email with all of the meeting details, it’s free!
Find All Queries That Use a Particular Table We just completed a massive 39 database conversion to SQL Server for a client in Tennessee which was quite challenging, we had to not only upsize all the tables, but switch the system from importing/exporting between databases to using linked tables inste [...]
Insert CreatedBy and CreatedOn in Any Missing Data Tables in SQL When we design Access with SQL Server solutions we almost always add CreatedBy and CreatedOn to all of our tables, allowing our clients to see who created records in the Access frontend. Script to add CreatedBy and CreatedOn Automatica [...]
Count All the Objects in Your Database The other day our company was tasked to convert a lot of Access databases to multiple SQL Server backends. To get a sense for the tasks involved, we needed a way to count all the tables, queries, forms and macros in each database. I did a quick Internet search [...]
Use Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 11.0 for the Best Performance [Update] There is a newer version of this post here. In our experience in using linked tables with Access, we get the best response using Native Client 11.0 with DSN-less tables. You could use ODBC 11 for SQL Server but then you wo [...]
Free Online Microsoft Access Tutorials in August August is here! Summer is winding down, but we still have some great MS Access User Group webinars. We’re also happy to announce that we’re launching a new chapter – the Canada Access User Group. If you haven’t attended one of our webinars before, the [...]
