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| Let's Split |
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| Andrew Wrigley |
| Ann Zeigler |
| Project Management & Data Modelling |
| Data Modeling for the Access Newcomer, Part 1 |
| Data Modeling for the Access Newcomer, Part 2 |
| An Access Project, Part 1: Requirements |
| An Access Project: Data Modeling |
| Working in the Real World |
| Data Modelling with Access and Visio |
| The ABCs of Requirements Management for Access |
| Learn to Use "Relationship" and "Normal" in the Same Sentence! |
| The Trouble with Normal |
| Parts 2-5 Normalization and Management Advice |
| Tables |
| What's in a Table? |
| Managing Lookup Tables |
| Managing State Transitions |
| Using List Regions with Many-to-Many Relationships |
| Decomposing a Badly Designed Table |
| I've Got Plenty of Nothing |
| Queries |
| Consolidating Your Data With Queries |
| Simplifying Complex SQL |
| All in the Family |
| Simplifying Queries |
| Subquery Notes |
| Tame the Crosstab Missing Column Beast |
| Computing the Median (Again) |
| Give Me a Call |
| Tricky Queries |
| Query-Based Applications |
| Access Subquery Techniques |
| Forms and Menus |
| Flexible Normalization and Denormalization of Data |
| Explorer Forms with a Single Keystroke |
| Dynamic Menus |
| Conditional Formats on Access Forms |
| Eventful Formatting for Access Forms |
| Positioning a Record on a Form |
| Sub Forms |
| Zoom, Zoom, Zoom |
| Let Your Users Sort it Out |
| Accessing Subforms |
| Undo in Sub Forms |
| Control Your Subforms |
| The Sub-SubForm Youve Always Wanted |
| $ The things that we sell $ |
| List and Combo Boxes |
| Let me check my list… |
| Tricks With Combo Boxes |
| Drilling with Combo Boxes |
| Creating Paired Listbox Controls |
| Paired Listbox Controls, Part 2 |
| Use Classes to Enhance List and Combo Boxes |
| Your Listbox-Filling Options |
| Get More From Your List Boxes |
| Access Controls |
| Handling groups of controls |
| We Get Letters |
| Dynamic Checklists |
| Managing Margins Of Text Box and Label Controls |
| Alternative Buttons |
| From Zoom Box to Custom Dialog |
| Validate input such as ZIP codes and postal codes |
| Reports |
| Two Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Reports (and More!) |
| Reports: Multiple Columns and Subreports |
| Creating a Great Report |
| Dynamic Grouping In Reports |
| Dot Leaders and Table Of Contents Reports |
| Pivots and Charts |
| Easy as Pie |
| Create Dynamic Chart Applications |
| Programming Pivot Tables for Access Forms |
| Analyze Your Data in Space |
| Business Intelligence |
| PivotTables in Access |
| Word, Outlook and Excel |
| Access Answers: Excelling Automatically |
| Build Word 2003 Docs with XML |
| Excellent Analysis |
| Find out about Word |
| Consolidating Outlook Contact Data |
| Manipulating Outlook Data from Access |
| Use Excel to Analyze and Graph Access Data |
| Notes On Moving To Exchange In The Cloud |
| Our Newsletter and Feeds Etc |
| Installation, Setup and UI |
| Remote Updates of a Back-End Database |
| Extracting Your Access Configuration |
| Using the Access 2003 Database Window |
| Click Savers - Command bars |
| Performance |
| Access Database Performance |
| Is The Query Compiled? |
| Protection and Security |
| Microsoft Access Passwords, Workgroups and ADO |
| Real-World Access Security |
| Dual Control |
| Encrypt Your Data |
| Restricting Who Can Use Your Database |
| Managing Quality, Bugs and Errors |
| Logging Access Startup Details and Version Control |
| Playing Tag with Validation |
| Access Answers: But it Worked Yesterday! |
| User Interface and Documentation |
| Access User Interface Design |
| Six Rules for Effective User Interface Design |
| Handling Visual Complexity |
| Cuing Banners |
| Access Application Development Documentation |
| The Form’s the Thing |
| Implementing Proactive User Assistance |
| Access Answers: Talk to Me |
| Access Interfaces: Handling Price Ranges |
| Imports, Exports and XML |
| Access 2003 and XML |
| Put XML to Use in Access 2002 |
| Save Yourself Some Work |
| Dates and Time |
| About Time |
| Stupid Date Tricks |
| Fuzzy Dates |
| When DateAdd Doesn't |
| Working All Day - Weekends |
| Did Someone Say Holiday |
| Access Developer Needs a Date |
| VBA |
| Preventing Reference Failures |
| Handling Print Layout |
| Two Functions You Don't Use Enough |
| An Average Column: I Mean, What Mode is Your Median |
| More Dragging Around |
| Convert Embedded Macros |
| Dealing with File Names |
| The FileSystemObject |
| Accessing Spatial Data, Part 1 |
| Accessing Spatial Data, Part 2 |
| Accessing Spatial Data, Part 3 |
| Invisible Forms Revisited: Park Your Global Values Here |
| Peter Comes to Bat |
| Hide Your Input, and it’s Pretty Common |
| User Preferences, Toggles, and Rocket Science |
| DAO |
| Everything About Using Parameters from Code |
| Embedded quotes in SQL statements |
| ADO |
| Active Data Objects |
| An ADO Tutorial: What is ADO? |
| An ADO Command Factory for Stored Procedures |
| Using the ADO Command Object |
| Advanced Data Shaping |
| SQL Server and Access |
| An Access Explorer for SQL Server Tables |
| Working with or without a DSN |
| Using Access to Prototype for SQL Server |
| Client/Server Issues |
| Migrating Access (and Outlook Data) to SQL Server |
| Access Data Projects - ADP |
| Access 2002 Data Projects for Developers |
| Using Stored Procedures in ADPs |
| Constructing a SQL Parameter Add-in |
| Creating SQL Server Tables with Access Projects |
| Converting an ADP to a MDB |
| Windows Controls and Message Boxes |
| Making Your Applications Talk |
| I've Just Got to Get a Message to You |
| Displaying Hierarchical Data in a TreeView |
| Taming the Treeview Control |
| Access Interfaces: Building Explorer-style Forms |
| File Open Dialog Options |
| Want Machine Information |
| Print or Bookmark This Site |
| 2009 ~ The Toolbox |
| Outlook Synchronizing and Internet Maps in the Access 2007 Contacts Template |
| Outlook Linked Tables and a Flutter On The Stock Market |
| Creating Charts/Graphs in an Access 2007 Database |
| Use Access 2007 to Get Started in Data Mining |
| Searching For Text Anywhere In A Database |
| Focus on Popular Objects to Speed up an Access 2007 Database |
| Setting Up Right Click Menus for Access 2007 |
| Preparing To Upgrade Access Tables to SQL Server 2005/2008 |
| IIF Queries |
| Tip: Date Picker |
| Apr-2006 ~ GOLD Collection |
| Mar-2006 |
| Feb-2006 |
| Jan-2006 |
| Dec-2005 |
| A Classy Interface for Microsoft Excel |
| Nov-2005 |
| Oct-2005 |
| Precision Matters |
| Sep-2005 |
| Breadcrumbs, or How I Learned to Love the Switchboard |
| Collecting Internet Favorites |
| EyeWitness Testimony |
| Aug-2005 |
| Objects for the Database Developer |
| These Are a Few of My Favorite Things |
| Jul-2005 |
| Our Access |
| Managing Access from .Net |
| Jun-2005 |
| Architecture |
| May-2005 |
| Building an Access Add-In with Dot Net |
| Quality |
| Apr-2005 |
| Negotiation |
| Soundex: "Close" Only Counts in Horseshoes |
| Mar-2005 |
| Service-Oriented Access |
| With Friends Like These |
| Getting More Out of Access 2003 Help |
| Feb-2005 |
| Scenarios |
| Book Review: Grover Park George on Access |
| Single Sourcing Your Help |
| Jan-2005 |
| Access 2006 The Community Speaks |
| Extending Access Reports with Word and HTML |
| Access Answers: Does This File Register with You |
| Dec-2004 |
| Forgive Me, I Have Sinned |
| Do More for Less |
| Making the Grade |
| Nov-2004 |
| Product Review: Access 2003 Conversion Toolkit |
| Definition of Insanity |
| Visual Basic .NET Development |
| Access Answers: Sounds Good to Me |
| Oct-2004 |
| Using FTP from Access Applications |
| Sep-2004 |
| Access Interfaces: User Configuration |
| Sending E-mail with Access |
| Access Traps for the Naïve Developer |
| Aug-2004 |
| Access 2006—Have Your Say |
| Jul-2004 |
| Jun-2004 |
| Communication |
| Access Answers: Shortcuts, Quotes, and What Have I Done? |
| May-2004 |
| Spam Killers |
| The AutoExec Macro |
| Apr-2004 |
| Who’s the Bad Guy, Part 2 |
| Mar-2004 |
| How can I change the size of the checkbox on my form |
| Check, Please and Procedures in the Event of Problems... |
| Feb-2004 |
| Improving Data Entry Feedback with Sound |
| Sounding Off |
| Jan-2004 |
| What a Drag it is: Drag and Drop in Access |
| Who’s the Bad Guy? |
| Supporting Custom Sort Orders |
| Dec-2003 ~ SILVER Collection |
| Nov-2003 |
| Editorial: The Future of Jet? |
| Outputting Flexible Data |
| Doing Two Things at Once |
| Web Service Wannabes |
| Oct-2003 |
| Giving Your Access Form Controls Web-style Behaviors |
| Packaging Access 2003 Solutions |
| How to Pad Access Reports With Blank Rows |
| Sep-2003 |
| Access 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services |
| Summer Reading: A Book About Me |
| Creating Spreadsheets Without Excel |
| The Access Developer's Bookshelf |
| Product Review: Questica Query Dependencies |
| Aug-2003 |
| Send Data Without Attachments! |
| Staying Alive |
| Jul-2003 |
| Competitive Advantage |
| Jun-2003 |
| XML and Relational Databases |
| May-2003 |
| Access: The .NET Report Writer |
| Looking at .NET with T-SQL |
| Apr-2003 |
| Your Future |
| Mar-2003 |
| Feb-2003 |
| Navigation Through Recursion |
| Coming Next: Access 11 |
| Combining Tables using Union Queries |
| Jan-2003 |
| So Here’s My Plan |
| Dec-2002 |
| And The Good News Is |
| Nov-2002 |
| Moving to the Web |
| “Just-In-Time” Queries |
| Oct-2002 |
| Sep-2002 |
| Access and .NET |
| Aug-2002 |
| Access, Office, and .NET |
| FMS Total Visual Code Tools 2002 |
| Jul-2002 |
| Not For Null |
| Taking Outlook and XML to Task |
| Jun-2002 |
| Iron Rules |
| May-2002 |
| The Problems with Success |
| Apr-2002 |
| Review ~ FMS Access Speller 2000+ |
| Toys, Changes, Skills |
| Mar-2002 |
| Moving ADP's Between Machines |
| Its Time |
| Complex Report Selection |
| Feb-2002 |
| Auto-Generated Update SQL |
| Jan-2002 |
| Dec-2001 |
| Saving Reports is a Snap |
| Jargon |
| Nov-2001 |
| ADO.Net Revolution: Data Adapter |
| FMS Total Access Analyzer 2000 |
| Tip: Leave Me Open |
| Oct-2001 |
| Sep-2001 |
| Eyewitness Testimony |
| Aug-2001 |
| Manage your Update Tables with Query Lists |
| In My Craft or Sullen Art |
| Jul-2001 |
| Connections |
| Jun-2001 |
| Access 2002/XP for Developers |
| May-2001 |
| Changes |
| Apr-2001 |
| Improving on VBA with Transact-SQL |
| Moving to SQL Server |
| Mar-2001 |
| An Access E-mail Application |
| We Get Mail |
| Feb-2001 |
| Everything About AutoNumbers |
| You Can Do That with Datasheets? |
| Jan-2001 |
| Everything Doesn't Happen at Once: Loosely Coupled Events |
| Access Applications |
| Dec-2000 |
| Graph to GIFs and Powerpoint |
| Faith |
| System Tables, Mixing Versions |
| Closing All Forms |
| Tip: Warning: Boxes and Control Tips |
| Querying a Customer Survey Table |
| Nov-2000 |
| Accessing the Internet |
| Tip: Retrieve Folder Names |
| Oct-2000 |
| Sep-2000 |
| Bad News |
| Aug-2000 |
| The Jet 4.0 Exchange/Outlook IISAM |
| Jul-2000 |
| Plus Ca Change |
| Jun-2000 |
| Access 2000 - An Opinion |
| May-2000 |
| Whining |
| Apr-2000 |
| The No-Problem Problem |
| Stored Procedure tricks |
| Effective User Manuals |
| Mar-2000 |
| On the Road Again |
| Advanced ADO Data Providers |
| Feb-2000 |
| Getting Better |
| Jan-2000 |
| Taking an Inventory |
| Dec-1999 |
| Managing Your Portfolio |
| Tip: Watch Out for Auto Index |
| Tip: Easy ComboBox Dropdown |
| Nov-1999 |
| Four Ways to Merge to Word |
| Editorial: You've Got to Have Friends |
| Tip: When is Modal Not Modal? |
| Oct-1999 |
| Using the ADO Objects Effectively |
| What’s an Expert? |
| Sep-1999 |
| Helping Out |
| Tip: Retrieving Folder Paths from the Registry |
| Tip: Identifying Reports |
| Aug-1999 |
| Client/Server Development with Access |
| Trolling for Articles |
| DAO verses ADO - DAO isn't Done Yet |
| Comparing DAO and ADO Recordsets |
| Jul-1999 |
| Active Development |
| Create and Alter Tables In Access |
| Jun-1999 |
| Forms, Sorting Reports, and Dating Errors |
| Tip: Custom Sorting |
| Choosing Directories: Harder Than It Sounds |
| May-1999 |
| Persistent Recordsets in ADO |
| It's Good to Have Friends |
| Exploiting the Query Manager |
| ActiveX Controls and Forms |
| Apr-1999 |
| AdHoc Report Builder |
| We'll All Hang Together |
| Tip: Shortcuts for Symbols |
| Mar-1999 |
| Managing Change |
| Access to XML |
| The Easy Approach to Code Reuse |
| Feb-1999 |
| Accessing ADO |
| We Interrupt Our Regular Broadcasting |
| One Huge Leap Toward SQL Server |
| Introducing the TSI Synchronizer Object |
| Access World News - Whats New in Access 2000 |
| Jan-1999 |
| Using Dynamic External Event Procedures |
| Career Advice |
| Keeping up Appearances |
| Dec-1998 |
| Programming WithEvents |
| The Future Of Access |
| Access Replication |
| Nov-1998 |
| Bugs and Quality |
| An Access Control Panel, Part 2 |
| SQL Discrepancies, List Boxes, and Still Trying to Get a Date |
| Oct-1998 |
| Building a Better Access Resource |
| Data Modeling for Access Developers |
| Case Study: Configuring Data |
| Bar Code Basics |
| Say UNC, API Calls, {CAPSLOCK}, and Time |
| Sep-1998 |
| Building an Access Control Panel |
| Three Steps to Disaster |
| Properties Without Fear |
| Case Study: Researching Data |
| Undocumented Features, Subforms, and More |
| Aug-1998 |
| Exploring Your Data Visually |
| Whose Data is it, Anyway? |
| The PrivDBEngine Object |
| Jul-1998 |
| Taming the Century Beast |
| Late and Early |
| Preparing Access 2.0 for Y2K |
| Network Utilities |
| Right Clicks and Numbers |
| Subforms |
| Jun-1998 |
| Saving Time Using Date/Time Functions |
| Vandals, Viruses, and Moral Decisions |
| Query Queries |
| A Day in the Life of Microsoft Developer Support -- Part 1 |
| Electronic Commerce, Part 2 |
| Tip: Access Form Screen Shot |
| Tip: Growing Lines |
| May-1998 |
| Learning to Share |
| A Movable Feast |
| Working with Attached Tables |
| Tip: Symbolically Yours |
| Tip: dbFailOnError Rollback |
| Electronic Commerce, Part 1 |
| Tip: Vertical Line in Detail Sections |
| Printers, Disks, and Controls |
| Apr-1998 |
| Old Lamps for New |
| Putting Subqueries to Use |
| Document Procedures Separately |
| Mar-1998 |
| Silence |
| Creating Histograms Using Access |
| Naming Conventions |
| Track Your System File Versions |
| Tip: Controlling Access to the Database Window |
| Feb-1998 |
| Searching Access |
| It's a Grand Life if You Don't Weaken |
| Developing a Certified Access Study Guide |
| Security, Replication, and No Automation |
| Tip: Link with UNC |
| Access World News |
| Jan-1998 |
| Access the PalmPilot Using Pendragon Forms |
| I'm Just Too Busy |
| Forms and Wizards |
| Align With Style |
| Dec-1997 |
| Coming Attractions |
| Cross-Reference Your Tables and Fields |
| Tip: AutoExecuting Functions |
| Nov-1997 |
| Knowledge is Power |
| Access MVP Solutions to Your Biggest Problems |
| Tip: When 8 is Not Enough |
| Tip: Default Value Magic |
| Oct-1997 |
| Is Programming Enough? |
| Tip: Type Code Quicker |
| Getting in Line |
| The Return of Access Answers |
| Tip: Are You Deviant? |
| Tip: Associate Labels With Controls |
| Tip: Like, You Know |
| Sep-1997 |
| Which to Choose |
| The Perfect Balance |
| Tip: Easily Display Properties |
| Tip: Exploring Compacting |
| Tip: Don't End Any Field Name with "desc" |
| Tip: Getting the Math Right |
| Tip: Controlling Time |
| Aug-1997 |
| The Great State of Denial |
| Tip: The IN Crowd |
| SubQueries to the Rescue |
| Tip: Mixing Validation Rules |
| Jul-1997 |
| Using Source Code Control with Access 97 |
| Let Me Introduce Myself |
| Tip: Don't Forget to Intercept These Keystrokes |
| Tip: Wrap API Calls So They'll Work in All Versions of Access |
| Tip: Use StrComp to Make Case-Sensitive Comparisons |
| Using an Undocumented Object, Removing the MRU List etc |
| Tip: The Built-In Proper Case Function etc |
| Jun-1997 |
| Time to Move On |
| Closing All Open Forms |
| Handling Misleading Report Errors |
| May-1997 |
| SQL Without Joins |
| In Defence of VBA |
| Shuffling Lists of Numbers, Ranking, and Control-Level Validation |
| Apr-1997 |
| The Microsoft Web Browser Control |
| Mar-1997 |
| Start Programming with Class |
| Nulls or Zero Length Strings - Doesn't Matter |
| Feb-1997 |
| The More Things Change . . . |
| Jan-1997 |
| Moving On Up |
| How to Convert Case and Calculate Total Time |
| Dec-1996 |
| Get Ready for an Exciting New Year! |
| Nov-1996 |
| More News on Access 97 |
| Oct-1996 |
| A Change of Heart |
| Tip: Use With Construct to Streamline Your Code |
| Tip: Update and Append Records from One Query |
| Really Old Stuff |
| Sep-1996 |
| Printing Pesky ZIP Codes and Setting the Starting Page Number for Reports |
| Aug-1996 |
| An Assortment of Windows API Tricks |
| May-1996 |
| Mar-1996 |
| Top Values, Hierarchical Lists, and Almost Equivalent Strings |
| Jun-1994 |
| Create Resolution-Independent Forms in Access 2.0 |
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