http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk the musings of an ancient geek Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:10:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/wp-content/themes/czen/images/cz_feed.gifhttp://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk8060the musings of an ancient geek http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2012/02/conditional-formatting-problem-in-microsoft-access/ http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2012/02/conditional-formatting-problem-in-microsoft-access/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:12:23 +0000 Alan http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/?p=987 http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2012/02/conditional-formatting-problem-in-microsoft-access/feed/ 0 I have been puzzling for some time why a Microsoft Access continuous form in an application I am maintaining insisted on replacing the background colour of a control by making it transparent when the record was not selected, and although the background colour returned when actually selecting the record the conditional formatting that was supposed [...] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2012/01/supporting-the-fight-against-sopa/ http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2012/01/supporting-the-fight-against-sopa/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:23:24 +0000 Alan http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/?p=983 http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2012/01/supporting-the-fight-against-sopa/feed/ 0 This site, along with my sister site Hartley Consultants are supporting the fight against SOPA.  Although this is an American legislation, which I have little influence over, the bill’s implementation will have far reaching effects way beyond the intended one of stopping piracy. In fact it will probably do nothing much to stop piracy, whilst [...] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/10/removing-security-from-an-access-application/ http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/10/removing-security-from-an-access-application/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:18:18 +0000 Alan http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/?p=956 http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/10/removing-security-from-an-access-application/feed/ 0 I have been working with an old Access 2000 application and decided, due to the change in use to a Kiosk type application, where multiple people use the same application without shutting down, that the security mechanism based on Workgroup security will have to go. This application had previously been secured by using a bespoke [...] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/05/how-to-have-a-sql-server-stored-procedure-be-the-source-for-an-access-report/ http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/05/how-to-have-a-sql-server-stored-procedure-be-the-source-for-an-access-report/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 16:19:34 +0000 Alan http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/?p=944 http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/05/how-to-have-a-sql-server-stored-procedure-be-the-source-for-an-access-report/feed/ 0 In converting my Access back end database I came across a little gotcha that took a while to solve. I was trying to dynamically have a stored procedure on the server act as the record source for a Report. But what ever I tried, I kept getting an Error Message “Run-time error ’32585′ This feature [...] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/05/an-automated-backup-regime-for-a-small-sql-server-database/ http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/05/an-automated-backup-regime-for-a-small-sql-server-database/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 07:14:14 +0000 Alan http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/?p=936 http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/05/an-automated-backup-regime-for-a-small-sql-server-database/feed/ 2 I am making this post to show how to make a simple automated backup regime for a relatively small SQL Server (I am using SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition) database. I am doing so, because when I was looking for some inspiration for doing this myself I found it quite hard to get all [...] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/04/how-to-create-an-access-subreport-which-uses-as-sql-server-stored-procedure-as-its-data/ http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/04/how-to-create-an-access-subreport-which-uses-as-sql-server-stored-procedure-as-its-data/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:15:28 +0000 Alan http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/?p=930 http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/04/how-to-create-an-access-subreport-which-uses-as-sql-server-stored-procedure-as-its-data/feed/ 0 I am porting an Access Front End/Access Back End application into an Access Front End/SQL Server Back End application. One thing that got me stumped for a while was a report which had an embedded query as a subreport. This query was complicated in that it had many joins, group by clauses on inner selects [...] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/04/importing-access-database-into-sqlserver-when-the-former-is-protected-with-a-workgroup-file/ http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/04/importing-access-database-into-sqlserver-when-the-former-is-protected-with-a-workgroup-file/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:59:03 +0000 Alan http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/?p=902 http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/04/importing-access-database-into-sqlserver-when-the-former-is-protected-with-a-workgroup-file/feed/ 0 I have been trying to explore different ways of populating a SQLServer database with data from a fairly complex multiuser Microsoft Access application, with a view to migrating the application to using SQLServer for its primary data server. The application is split into front end accessing a main backend database (and a couple of other [...] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/04/calling-a-form-with-return-values/ http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/04/calling-a-form-with-return-values/#comments Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:15:25 +0000 Alan http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/?p=900 http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/04/calling-a-form-with-return-values/feed/ 0 I recently learnt a neat trick for calling a form in Microsoft Access and retrieving values from it. It is really nice to encase the whole thing in a function which retrieves a return value. Let me show you with a simple example – I want to return an address based on a post code [...] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/04/a-video-about-my-air-hockey-software/ http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/04/a-video-about-my-air-hockey-software/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:05:55 +0000 Alan http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/?p=895 http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/04/a-video-about-my-air-hockey-software/feed/ 2 I have made a video about my Air Hockey game, a web based simulation of an Air Hockey table. I repeat it here, although it is also available on my software applications page Making a video that works with Flowplayer seemed to be quite a difficult job. In producing the video using linux I tried [...] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/03/jumping-to-a-particular-record-in-ms-access/ http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/03/jumping-to-a-particular-record-in-ms-access/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:10:40 +0000 Alan http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/?p=752 http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/03/jumping-to-a-particular-record-in-ms-access/feed/ 0 I have been working with Microsoft Access for a while but I had run up against a problem that took me a while to solve. I have a form, with two sub-forms side by side, both of which contain similar subforms displayed in continuous form mode. Each subform is a query based around activities on [...]