Access MVP (2010-2015)

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Circular Reference (well, kind of)…

You sat down to build your database and things were going great. You made a table for Members and one for Members Contacts. Only you now realize that the Members Contacts can also be Members. At first you think… that will be okay. But then you go to build your forms and realize this is […]

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Custom Navigation Buttons…

While Access provides Navigation Buttons, they must always be at the bottom of the Form. This does not work for my Form designs (Figure 1). Using the code below you can put your Navigation buttons where you want them AND avoid the *No Current Record* message that happens when the underlying recordset contains no records. […]

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So you’re ready to upsize…

Here are a few tips when upsizing tables to an SQL Server that I have picked up along the way…

Make a Back-Up of your Database… (added 7.26.2013)

Need I say more?

Just say *NO* to…

…Special Characters or Symbols

These characters have meaning when used in Access and on an SQL Server. While wrapping […]

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Queries really can’t do everything…

que-ry [kweer-ee] noun, plural que-ries verb, que-ried, que-rying

an inquiry a computer language used to make queries into databases and information systems A way to view a subset of information from one or more tables in a database Queries return records from one or more tables according to the parameters set in that query

However, […]

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Update database front ends…

Everyone who has split a database needs a way to update the Frontends. There are a few choices out there…

Tony’s Auto FE Updater BTAB Development Front-End Auto-Update Enabling Tool Automatically Deploy a New Access Client

…and here’s another one: In Backend (and this can be an SQL Server) create a table… tblVersionControlMaster vcmVersionControlID (PK, […]

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