The form also has a feature that allows us to toggle between that screen and a full screen view of the weather radar on these large monitors for defined time intervals. We have some really cool tools that many people see when touring our facility. They have no idea that a software that is part of the MS Office Suite is what is making major parts of our operation click. Even with some of the custom applications I have been fortunate enough to design with MS Access, I have only used a minimal amount of its full potential.
If it can make it until April , I will be one happy man. Hi Chris! I have also creating many applications for our agency. You name it, I developed it in Access. I LOVE the app and the apps are all so dependable. I was wondering if you encountered the last release.
They somehow broke control of the. It broke the ability for multiple users to open. First one in locks it exclusively. We had to revert back to. SOOooo frustrating. Maybe I should convert all my backends to SQL but I love the ease and flexibity of just linking to an Access data file.
So nice to see another developer out there like me who sees the intrinsic value of Access. Many in our IT staff demonize this app and are also completely ignorant of how it even works. Take care, Kennedy. I was stuck with simple librarys for storing tables in files. A full relational database, more so than FoxPro.
Proper SQL queries. For the sorts of things people do in business there never was anything better and after 30 years still nothing better. I keep looking. The only rival where I was working was Lotus Notes. The secretary could generate a database and send out a form by email and have answers typed directly into her database. It took her about 10 minutes to do that. I really could not do that in Access. Obviously IBM killed that product it was cutting their bespoke programming profits. The only other way of getting the same result as Access would be to use an Integrated Development Environment and code it all up in a compiled programming language.
You get a better result but it would take 10 times as long. So arrogant to drop Microsoft Access, i have been a supporter since Access2, Using large amounts of VBA and automation some bespoke programs can be created, totally not available off the shelf, and a far cry from a contact database.
Standalone databases not on the web still have a place in business. Keep Access going we have made you a fortune over the years. We used Access in the same way for many years, but moved away from it, favoring SQL scripts over GUI-based operations because scripts allow better repeatability, modifiability, QA-ability, self-documentation, and version control.
I expect to see it in future antique shops and museums much like the toys from my youth are now displayed…. Google Forms for what I catch is a single table form presentation for a spreadsheet, by nothing a database handling and linking different tables.
The only real downside to MS Access is that it cannot be effectively deployed via a browser. This limits internet access to an Access application to a virtual Windows desktop environment like a VM or Citrix. Access is a great front-end GUI and report-writing solution for small to medium companies as well as departmental apps. The new direction of Microsoft to the Power platform is great and Access can to some degree work within that framework.
Over the past two years I have been developing a robust data modeling and administrative system that integrates across numerous functions and applications. It uses Access a conduit for data transformation and publishing. I completely agree with you Phil, and to add, I think that MS Access has become one of the most underestimated tools over the past few years.
Where I live almost every medium sized company and quite a few large companies have moved over to O and are beginning to take advantage of SharePoint, PowerApps and Flow.
I always create my relationship based tables in Access and then upload to SharePoint. This gives me the ability create a fully relationship based data-sets in SharePoint within minutes. And as you mentioned, the mere act of opening Access with an internet connection automatically backs up the data and also gives users the ability to perform offline tasks… Amazing! It is imperative that MS Access is supported for Microsoft NET6 on VS, as the demand for such developers is growing day by day and we will be able to use Access skill for next 10 years.
It is easy to link to multiple Excel or. CVS files and do regular, right and left joins using Access. If there is a cheap or free tool that does it as well and easily, would love to know about it, but until I find a replacement, for this tool alone, I would truly miss it if it were gone! The article completely ignores the online support angle.
The level of crowd-sourced support is just astounding. You Google the problem and get nothing. Oh, and the fact that Access has changed so little over the years? It means that the subroutine you find online from will work today.
Same with the instructional videos. Makes you realise in the end these new features are just not worth spending the time learning. Show me any other product out there where you can develop complex DB application from analysis to deployment in less 15 minutes.
I do hate it, but will miss it if Microsoft nix it. I am sometimes amazed that some of these databases even work when I see how badly the tables are designed, and the associated VBA, queries etc. Access is unique, because it is a database that comes with a full set of tools to build a functional application. Or you could call it an application builder, that comes with a database! There are many of these legacy applications running well under current versions of Windows and many clients who would be lost without them.
They have a very large customer base that depends on it. One thing about Access that many developers love: it has a small footprint and is highly efficient.
New highly specialized applications can be developed quickly and relatively cheaply. The downside with Access is security, but when it is deployed on a network, network security takes over and these applications run securely. Access rocks. The ribbon sucks. Microsoft totally blew it with the later versions that it developed. Access could have evolved into an extremely powerful tool for small to midsize applications using SQL Server as its database.
I used to work for a company that was developing applications in dot net using C sharp. I am still clinging to Office for that same reason. At work I use Access desktop version to store and combine data from different sources f. To me, storing data in Excel is like summoning the evil one.
MS query in Excel is painfully slow and data integrity… number stored as text, oh my! Access does all that, the query builder is terrific, and you can build and automate reports in no time. You have no idea how much time I save with reporting only. Btw, try sharing data with an external company via Sharepoint, Teams, Onedrive if your global sysadmin acts like Mordac, the preventor of information services.
Mail an Access report or exported query and everybody is happy. Hello there! One thing Assess in not that good is a security. And this is not discussed in length or not even mentioned.
Security this days is a paramount and no matter how much Access is good as a tool, it is not safe for anything more than a home usage.
Yes, the SQL Server can be used, but than it is not a standalone database, and multiple licenses are needed. Still, one can connect and dump the data which is exactly against the security principles. So, decisions, decision, is Access for domestic usage or corporate? I am getting daily questions on how to move Access to the Web.
The interest is huge. I contributed to the invention of Information Engineering. I have experience. I started using Access version 1 in and was impressed by how easy it was to use. I developed the SQL Server back-ends, wrote the stored procedures, etc. You can develop a simple, single-user app, using wizards, to do something useful. You can also develop slightly more complex, multi-user systems by splitting the Access database into two: back-end and front-end.
This is where simple VBA usually comes in. Someone in England developed a successful Access version 2 system with simultaneous users. You can make it efficient. SQL Server. I was called in to look at a VB6 system with an Access database. Response time going from tab to tab on the main data entry form was around 10 minutes. The network was heavily overloaded. Government department with no money to spend on IT. But the problem was the way that the database was used to add a new record.
The SQL statement to open the new record read every record in the contact table, over , of them. Usually multiple users can open the same access database at the same time. But now only one use at a time can open the access database. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. For example, if you run the Database Documenter against a data entry form, the report created by the Documenter lists the properties for the form as a whole, the properties for each of the sections in the form, and the properties for any buttons, labels, text boxes, and other controls on the form, plus any code modules and user permissions that are associated with the form.
To print the report, on the Print Preview tab, in the Print group, click Print. Note: Design view is not available for tables in web databases.
Opening a table in Design view gives you a detailed look at the table's structure. For example, you can find the data type setting for each field, find any input masks, or see if the table uses any lookup fields — fields that use queries to extract data from other tables. This information is useful because data types and input masks can affect your ability to find data and run update queries.
For example, suppose that you want to use an update query to update particular fields in one table by copying data in similar fields from another table. The query will not run if the data types for each field in the source and destination tables don't match. In the Navigation Pane, right-click the table that you want to explore, and then click Design View on the shortcut menu.
The data type assigned to a field can limit the size and type of data that users can enter in a field. For example, users may be limited to 20 characters in a text field, and cannot enter text data in a field set to the Number data type. To determine whether a field is a lookup field, click the Lookup tab in the lower section of the table design grid, under Field Properties. A lookup field displays one set of values one or more fields, such as a first and last name , but usually stores a different set of values one field, such as a numeric ID.
For example, a lookup field may store an employee's ID number the stored value , but it displays the employee's name the displayed value. When you use a lookup field in expressions or in find and replace operations, you use the stored value, not the displayed value. Becoming familiar with the stored and displayed values of a lookup field is the best way to make sure that an expression or a find and replace operation that uses the lookup field works the way that you expect. The following illustration shows a typical lookup field.
Remember that the settings that you see in the Row Source property of the field will vary. The lookup field shown here uses a query to retrieve data from another table. You may also see another type of lookup field, called a value list, that uses a hard-coded list of choices. This figure shows a typical value list. The best way to find lookup and value lists is by displaying the Lookup tab, and then clicking the entries in the Data Type column for each field in the table.
For more information about creating lookup fields and value lists, see the links in the See Also section. To see a graphical representation of the tables in a database, the fields in each table, and the relationships between those tables, use the Relationships object tab.
The Relationships object tab provides an overall picture of the table and relationship structure of a database — crucial information when you need to create or change the relationships between tables. Note: You can also use the Relationships object tab to add, change, or delete relationships.
On the Database Tools tab, in the Relationships group, click Relationships. The Relationships object tab appears and shows you the relationships between all of the tables in the open database. Using Visual Basic for Applications, automate business processes and create more useful forms and reports. Integrate data between Access and line-of-business apps using the Access connector library to generate aggregated visuals and insights in the familiar Access interface.
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