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Connecting Microsoft Access to MySQL

Posted on July 3, 2022August 8, 2022 by Andrew Comeau

In my latest video, I demonstrate how to use Microsoft Access as a front-end for MySQL without having to create a DSN entry on the client machine. Access easily connects to MySQL through an ODBC connection but the standard practice is to create a dedicated data source under the ODBC Data Sources Administration panel in…

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Filtering Combo Boxes in Microsoft Access

Posted on February 1, 2022February 18, 2023 by Andrew Comeau

Combo boxes are extremely useful in Microsoft Access and other design environments. They provide a compact control from which your users can access a drop-down menu that enables them to choose from a variety of options. In my applications, combo boxes often pull their rows from lookup tables such as product or customer lists and…

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Customizing Reports in Microsoft Access

Posted on May 25, 2021January 4, 2023 by Andrew Comeau

In my latest video, I go into more detail about Microsoft Access report settings. This video is also an addition to my tutorial series, Managing Your Data with Microsoft Access which is now free on YouTube. Microsoft Access has always been known for having a great report designer with which you can put together professional…

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Splitting a Database in Microsoft Access

Posted on March 23, 2021January 4, 2023 by Andrew Comeau

My latest video shows how to split a database in Microsoft Access to separate the data from the user interface and programming elements. Access can link to data from different file formats including Excel, text files and other Access databases. For multi-user applications, you can have an Access file with just the forms, reports, queries…

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Online Course – Managing Your Data with Microsoft Access

Posted on March 17, 2020January 4, 2023 by Andrew Comeau

One of the things I hear about Microsoft Access is that it’s simply too complicated for many people to work with. This is because Access is designed for building database applications that can be used to automate and manage processes. Too few resources approach it from that perspective. This leaves users and students without the…

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Should You Keep Using Microsoft Access?

Posted on November 11, 2019January 4, 2023 by Andrew Comeau

Full Disclosure – I Owe My Career to Access I’ve been working with Microsoft Access off and on since 1997, just a few years after it was first introduced in ’92. I can realistically say that learning Access made my career in I.T.. I’d had some previous programming and database experience with Borland Paradox and…

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How to Shut Down Remote Instances of Microsoft Access

Posted on November 6, 2019February 18, 2023 by Andrew Comeau

When you’re managing a multi-user Microsoft Access application, there are times when you need all users out of the database so that you can make changes to table structures and other items. Asking everyone to shut down is unreliable and using the Windows Task Manager to forcibly shut down instances of Microsoft Access is risky…

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Helping Users Work With Subforms in Microsoft Access

Posted on March 19, 2019February 14, 2023 by Andrew Comeau

Creating an Access application for other people means anticipating how the users are going to interact with your program. Without clear direction from the program or you, users can be easily confused by even simple things like the order in which data is to be entered. One of the basic tools in Access is the…

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How to Programmatically Relink Tables in Microsoft Access / VBA

Posted on January 15, 2019April 30, 2023 by Andrew Comeau

Several years ago, I designed a Microsoft Access application called JobSearch Plus for managing job leads during an employment search.  It was a split application, meaning that the tables were stored in one Access file, the back-end, and everything else was in the front-end file with table links to the other one. JobSearch Plus was…

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How To Create a Dynamic Search Filter on a Microsoft Access Form

Posted on January 9, 2019February 18, 2023 by Andrew Comeau

Best practice when retrieving data in Microsoft Access or any database, for that matter, is to limit the amount of data that you pull at any one time. This means using the proper filters and limiting the number of fields retrieved.  Often, you still end up with a lot of information to look through anyway….

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