The Microsoft Office Access 2007 Developer Extensions make it easy to deploy and manage solutions built using Microsoft Access. The Access 2007 Developer Extensions provide packaging and deployment tools and licensing and distribution agreements to make it easier for developers to bring solutions to market. Whether you are working in a small business or a…
A common programming mistake is to hard-code literals that corresponds to some property. That is particularly true with certain controls like tab controls & pages. The tab control exposes a Value property that indicates the current tab and the pages contains a PageIndex property that indicates its position in the tabs of the control. Thus,…
What is the SQL Server equivalent to Access CDate() function? Access SQL CDate([Event Timestamp]) SQL Server Equivalent cast([Event Timestamp] as datetime) convert(datetime, [Event Timestamp])
What is the SQL Server equivalent to Access NZ() function? Access SQL NZ([Event Timestamp]) SQL Server Equivalent COALESCE([Event Timestamp],0) ISNULL([Event Timestamp],0) * do not confuse this with the Access isnull() function.
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 application using combinations of multi-value and…
Microsoft Access saves information under the following file formats: File Format Extension Access Project (2007, 2010) .adp Access Blank Project Template (2007, 2010) .adn Access Database (2007, 2010, 2013, 2016) .accdb Access Record-Locking Information (2007, 2010, 2013, 2016) laccdb Access Web App Reference .accdw Access Signed Packages .accdc Access Database, used for Add-ins .accda Access…
In Microsoft Access, a null value is a value that is not assigned or unknown. When working with databases, it’s important to understand how to use and identify null values in order to ensure accurate and efficient data management. The IS NULL operator is one of the most useful tools for working with null values…
Before we create the Make Table Query, you might like to create a new blank database file. This is so we have a separate database into which we can paste the new table from the query. In this exercise I have called it HistoricData.accdb. Here is the procedure to create a Make Table Query: Open…
I was working on a design for an Order Management Database, and one of the tasks I dealt with involved dynamically Enabling or Disabling one of the form’s Command Buttons’ using VBA. This gave me the idea for the present Access tip. The command button was located on a Customer Details form which had an Orders…
How do I convert an Access UPDATE query to SQL Server? Access SQL UPDATE Cars INNER JOIN UpdateList ON Cars.Parts = UpdateList.Parts SET Cars.Price = [Updatelist].[price] SQL Server UPDATE Cars SET Cars.Price = [Updatelist].[price] FROM Cars INNER JOIN UpdateList ON Cars.Parts = UpdateList.Parts