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Watching and Waiting

Careful what you watch for! Monitoring changes to a slow expression can grind your debug session to a halt.

How to Set a Breakpoint Inside of an Access Query

Did you ever want to set a breakpoint inside of an executing query? How about inside a form event property? This trick lets you do it.

Commentary

Reducing Lost Code Recovery Time

How do you reduce your recovery time when you've lost a bunch of code you just wrote? To misquote Bart Simpson, "Version control, my man."

The Extra Resume: Revisited

Pre-staging the extra Resume means, "there's no code to change when debugging." But is that really a good thing?

SQL Server

Brent Ozar: Date Table Fan

Brent Ozar, legendary SQL Server guru, makes his case for using a "Date Table." The video is all done in T-SQL, but the concepts apply equally to ACE backends.

Commentary

Recovering From Code Loss

Access just crashed while you were writing code. When you last saved will determine how long it takes to recover, but it's not a linear relationship.

Basic

The Extra Resume

Want an easy way to jump to the line that raised the error AND avoid the infinite loop time bomb? Add an extra Resume.

Basic

The Danger of Do Loops

If you're going to write a Do Loop, don't forget to update whatever it is you're using to break out of said loop. And, oh yeah, save before testing!

Code Library

Looping by Month: Loop Until with DateAdd

Reader Francesco Foti writes in with his own solution to the Looping by Month challenge.

Code Library

Looping by Month: Lookup Table

Have I ever used this method? No. Can I imagine a situation where it could be useful? Maybe. Should I write an article about it? Sure, why not.

Code Library

Creating a Monthly Lookup Table

Having a table where each record represents a single month can come in quite handy. Let's create such a table.

Code Library

Looping by Month: Custom Functions

By using a couple of custom functions, we can write very readable loops that iterate one month at a time.

Code Library

Looping by Month: DateSerial

The first approach to looping by month uses only the builtin VBA functions DateSerial() and DateDiff().

Code Library

Sticky Wicket: Looping by Month

Some programming problems are difficult to solve. Others are difficult to solve clearly.

Commentary

You're Not an Impostor

You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you.

Code Library

RegOp Quick Tip

Be respectful of your user's registry. Store all your applications' settings in a dedicated publisher subkey.

Code Library

RegOp Class for 64-bit VBA

Updating a classic VBA registry reading and writing class module for 64-bit compatibility.

Tools

Hiding Shortcuts in Everything

Here's a quick tip from Tom Wickerath for hiding shortcut files from your Everything file search results.

Risk Management

The Allegory Explained

What does delivering mail have to do with writing software applications? I'm glad you asked.

Risk Management

Mail: An Allegory

Behold, the world's greatest literary allegory since George Orwell penned "Animal Farm."

Professional Development

Growing a Business

I used to think owning a business was scary. And then I decided to start growing it.

Tools

Everything You Need to Find Files

Or, should I say, You Need *Everything* to Find Files.

Code Library

Joining Paths in VBA

How many times have you gotten a runtime error because you had duplicate or missing backslashes in your file paths? Never again!

Tools

vbWatchdog Webinar

Peter Cole of ThemeMyDatabase.co.uk presents a demonstration of vbWatchdog in action. Come for the info, stay for the discount code.

SQL Server

Securing Access and SQL Server

Wherein Anders Ebro demonstrates how easy it is to circumvent application-level security in an Access program.