Month: July 2006

  • Useful Access Links

    In the absence of any real content, I’ve decided to post a few Access and VBA related links here. Some are rather general, some are rather specific. Regardless, they’ve been floating around in a text file called ‘useful stuff to look at’ on my computer for a while. So why not share the love? http://www.vb123.com/toolshed/02_docs/classyforms.htm…

  • Running SQL from Visual Basic Code – Apostrophe problems!

    I recently encountered a problem that I’ve actually encountered millions of times before – trying to run an SQL string from VBA code which makes use of double apostrophe’s (“”). Naturally, VBA uses these to break from a string literal, but pure Jet-SQL uses them for functions like Format() and Nz(). So if you do…

  • Ms Access Tips

    Hello valued reader! Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of doing quite a bit of work in Ms Access, and also in Visual Basic for Applications. On countless occasions I’ve benefited from the work of countless others who toil in this Rapid Application Development suite when I’ve encountered a hitch. I’ve always wanted to…