http://www.databasedev.co.uk Database Solutions for Microsoft Access from databasedev.co.uk. Database design and implementation articles, tips, tricks, code samples, Access FAQ's, Access Help and Free downloadable database and data model examples. en-us http://www.databasedev.co.uk/img/dbdev.jpg http://www.databasedev.co.uk 125 38 http://www.databasedev.co.uk/form_navigation_buttons.html Tue, 08 May 2012 21:30:00 GMT A Standard Set of Form Navigation Buttons In Microsoft Access 2010: You can end up reinventing a lot of wheels in Access if you?re not careful. This article shows you how to reach Access form Nirvana: a situation where you have a set of navigation buttons at the bottom of each form, which you can freely copy and paste without worrying about whether the code behind them will work.... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/whats_new_in_microsoft_access_2010.html Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:45:00 GMT What's New in Microsoft Access 2010: Microsoft has changed plenty of things with the 2010 interface. Some are more useful than others, but here's a list of what's new through the interface.... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/whats_new_in_microsoft_access_2010_pt_2.html Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:45:00 GMT What's New in Microsoft Access 2010: Microsoft has changed plenty of things with the 2010 interface. Some are more useful than others, but here's a list of what's new through the interface.... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/whats_new_in_microsoft_access_2010_ribbon.html Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:45:00 GMT What's New For Access 2010 Ribbon: So what's new in the Access 2010 version? Actually, plenty! The first thing that is readily available is the FILE menu. Microsoft brought it back for us..... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/audit_trail.html Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:00:00 GMT Audit Trails in Microsoft Access: What is an audit trail? Well...in simple terms, it is a tracking system. Audit trails are extremely useful for administrators because they can view (remote) changes to the system that they control. In Access, implementing a tracking system, or even a small procedure to record data changes is very simple..... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/comparing_records.html Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:00:00 GMT Record Comparisons Between Tables: When would this be needed? It's probably most used with Joins, when you need to find missing information connected to records in different tables..... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/error-handling.html Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:30:00 GMT Error Handling In Microsoft Access: Error handling routines are very powerful tools in Microsoft Access if they are used correctly. To effectively implement error handling in your applications, it is necessary to know the resources that are available when your program encounters an error..... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/calculate_work_days.html Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:00:00 GMT Calculating working days in Microsoft Access is a popular question, mostly because Microsoft's Help documentation on this subject is a little bit difficult to find. The term "Working days" usually means days that fall between Monday and Friday of any given week. To calculate this, we can simply use a little bit of VBA code combined with the built-in DateDiff() function to help us prepare..... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/ado_vs_dao.html Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:00:00 GMT DAO stands for "Data Access Objects" and ADO stands for "ActiveX Data Objects". But which method is the best to use? This is a question that has been asked for years by developers and it is still being debated today. There are many compatibilities between the two methods, but the most significant difference between them is the ability to work with data outside of Access and the JET engine environment..... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/prompt_to_save.html Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:15:00 GMT Microsoft Access automatically saves any changes we make to a record, whether we close the form or move to a new record. This article will show you a way of prompting a user to save the changes using VBA..... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/microsoft-access-2007-training-course.html Mon, 01 Jun 2010 20:30:00 GMT Learn Microsoft Access 2007: The MS Access Power Mastery course uses the power of video to expertly explain concepts. It literally takes you by the hand and in easy steps breaks apart each topic so that you quickly gain an understanding. Not only does it use video, but there are also PDF cheat sheets available to reinforce the concepts..... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/data-control-structures-vba.html Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:30:00 GMT Control Structures in VBA: As with any programming language VBA has over four control structures. Without these structures a programming language is basically useless. Because it wont be able to make intelligent decisions on its own. In this article we discuss some of the control structures that are available in VBA..... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/create-many-to-many-relationship.html Sat, 05 Feb 2010 21:30:00 GMT Why And How To Create A Many-To-Many Relationship: To create a many-to-many relationship between the Orders and Products tables, we need to create a join table between them like the Products_Orders table in this example. The primary key of the join table is the combination of the primary keys of the tables that we would like to join in a many-to-many relationship..... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/concatenation_using_iif_function.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:44:00 GMT Microsoft Access 2007 Pure SQL: Conditional concatenation with the iif() function. Sometimes, we might not want to apply the same concatenation rules for all of the records in the query. We can absolutely do this by using conditional statements and the iif() function in particular...... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/access2007-pure-sql.html Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:30:00 GMT This book provides the database professional and power user with more than 300 working solutions for daily business tasks. The goal has been to reduce needless writing and concentrate on the daily needs of database usage and development. Download the Free Sample Chapter..... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/export-table-to-enterprise-db.html Tue, 28 Aug 2008 21:30:00 GMT Exporting a table from Microsoft Access to EnterpriseDB: Postgres is the well known and most used Open Source OLTP database available today which is claimed to be as good as or even better than MySQL. EnterpriseDB is Postgres packaged differently to provide enterprise capabilities to Postgres users. EnterpriseDB is available for Windows platform as well..... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/microsoft-sync-framework.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:30:00 GMT Introducing the Microsoft Sync Framework: Data synchronization is a great feature - it ensures that the data at the source and destination is in sync to each other. The Sync Framework is a Microsoft technology that can deal with the dilemma of occasionally connected systems. It is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline and online access for applications, services, and devices..... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/text_files.html Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:15:00 GMT Using Text Files with Microsoft Access: Microsoft Access through VBA makes it easy for us to interact with the system files. In this article we will explore how to manipulate text files through Microsoft Access. To use files with Access we will have to use the file system object or FSO. The File System Object is basically a class that contains properties, methods and attributes that all relate to manipulating files..... http://www.databasedev.co.uk/dashboard-builder.html Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:30:00 GMT Product Review: Dashboard Builder for Microsoft Access Dashboard Builder is one of several Microsoft Access tools OpenGate Software offers. Aimed at anyone that needs to summarize and visualize their Access data, Dashboard Builder helps users to create metrics and graphs and combine them into compact dashboards.....