Week in Review Week in Review: February 24, 2024 Highlights include a video review of recent Access bug fixes and 2024 priorities, hiding duplicate values in continuous forms, and an intro to form subclassing.
Hiding Dupe Values Use Caching to Speed Up Editable Forms with Hidden Duplicate Values In this installment, we reduce our database calls by more than 80% by shifting the bulk of the work to high-performing VBA dictionary structures.
Hiding Dupe Values Use Custom Functions to Hide Multi-Level Group Headers on Editable Continuous Forms In this installment, we use custom recordset-based VBA functions to implement multi-level group headers in an editable continuous form.
Hiding Dupe Values Use DCount() to Make Editable Continuous Forms with Hidden Duplicate Values In this installment, we use the DCount() domain aggregate function to create an editable continuous form with hidden group header values.
Hiding Dupe Values Hiding Duplicate Values in Continuous Forms via Left Joins In this installment, we use Bill Karwin's inequality LEFT JOIN technique to handle multi-column sorting without grinding everything to a halt.
Hiding Dupe Values Hiding Duplicate Values in Continuous Forms via Subqueries In this installment, we use GROUP BY subqueries to generate a read-only record source for a continuous form that hides duplicate header values.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: February 18, 2024 Highlights include progress on the IDE memory leaks, object models for automating Excel's Solver, and discussion regarding a taskbar icon monitor issue.
Week in Review Week in Review: February 17, 2024 Highlights include generating hashes with the Windows API, designing datasheets in VBA, creating custom checkboxes, and hiding subforms until the parent has data.
Hiding Dupe Values Hiding Duplicate Values in Reports There are two primary ways to group records in an Access report: with AND WITHOUT group headers. ... Wait, what?!?!
Hiding Dupe Values Sample Data for the "Hiding Duplicate Values" Series This article contains the sample data for following along with the rest of the "Hiding Duplicate Values" series.
Hiding Dupe Values Hiding Duplicate Values in Microsoft Access Forms and Reports A series of articles with basic through advanced techniques for hiding duplicate column values in Microsoft Access reports and continuous forms.
ChatGPT ChatGPT: Code-Writing Intern, Code-Reading Mentor An exploration of ChatGPT's relative strengths and weaknesses when it comes to writing vs. reading code.
Tools Unfamiliar Language? 10X Your Productivity by Combining the Old with the New Pairing this free AI tool with an old-school technique is the key to unlocking immediate productivity in unfamiliar programming languages.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: February 11, 2024 Highlights include the option to restore a traditional title bar to the twinBASIC IDE, a new lifetime license offer, and a lively discussion about attribute syntax.
Week in Review Week in Review: February 10, 2024 Highlights include the v4 release of the Access Version Control add-in, practical RegEx examples, and the top 10 advanced features of MZ-Tools.
Code Complete Pseudocode Programming: Think First, Code Second Writing pseudocode before coding forces critical thinking, iterates on the best approaches, and enables programmers to implement complex logic flawlessly.
Prompt School Get Max Row by Group with ChatGPT This ChatGPT prompt lets you easily implement Bill Karwin's clever LEFT JOIN solution to a common data selection problem in SQL.
Announcement Major Release of the Microsoft Access Version Control Add-in Version 4.x of Adam Waller's msaccess-vcs-addin has been officially released today, featuring a ribbon toolbar, SQL formatting, and basic SQL Server schema support.
Quick Tip Clearing the Windows 10 "White Bar of Doom" A quick fix for the "White Bar of Doom" that occasionally appears on maximized windows in Windows 10. No reboot required!
Debugging Rubberducking This one-step process is a surprisingly effective way to troubleshoot the most complex programming problems.
twinBASIC Weekly Update twinBASIC Update: February 4, 2024 Highlights include two newly commissioned features (BigNumber support and a web page IDE panel) and a tB IDE comment/uncomment add-in.
Week in Review Week in Review: February 3, 2024 Highlights include the demystification of MS 365 Update Channels, a Rubberduck v3 status update, and adding speech recognition to Access.
Quick Tip HOW TO: Access the Windows Startup Folder In previous versions of Windows, the Startup folder was easy to find from the Start Menu. This quick tip makes the Startup folder easy to find again.
Version Control Mercurial: The Road Less Traveled Unfortunately, choosing the less popular version control system has some important real-world drawbacks.
Access 101 Access 101: DELETE Query The DELETE query: a tool for removing records in bulk that is almost too dangerous to use.