Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about knowing when (and how) to convert a fit-for-purpose procedure into a generic, reusable routine.

In this week's edition of Throwback Thursday, we explore the value of Abbreviation columns in lookup tables, how to automate populating them, and why they improve your apps.

In this epoch edition of Throwback Thursday, we explore several key compatibility considerations between Access and SQL Server.

Setting up a new SQL Server instance? Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is a one-stop shop for all your configuration, connection, and automated backup needs.

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we explore three different ways to determine the type of a variable in VBA.

Today's edition of Throwback Thursday uncovers Access's secret superpower: proving whether your custom software project is worth pursuing at all.

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we resurface some of Access and VBA's most deeply "hidden" features.

We dive into the mysterious and wonderful world of the hidden Access WizHook object in today's edition of Throwback Thursday.

In today's Throwback Thursday, we revisit several clever tricks to create consistent development environments across multiple devices and users.

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we explore several techniques for looping and grouping by month in Access and SQL Server.

Today's edition of Throwback Thursday explores a structured approach to safely rewrite a complex VBA function as a lightning-quick SQL Server scalar function.

Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is a deep dive into an underused tool in the VBA debugging toolkit: the Watch Window.

Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is an homage to the fine art of software maintenance...and how we can make this thankless chore easier on our future selves.

This week's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about the tool we use to track hours at my software development company (plus how--and why--we got here).

Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is an homage to the "citizen developer"--largely responsible for Access's 30-year domination in the desktop database market.

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we explore two common data structures used to store multiple objects in VBA: Collections and Dictionaries.

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we revisit one of my favorite techniques: guard clauses--my secret weapon for avoiding Dante Alighieri-levels of nesting.

We revisit one of my all-time favorite articles in today's edition of Throwback Thursday. The topic is dry (LLCs, S Corps, and C Corps, oh my!), but the writing is not.

This week's Throwback Thursday article features tips, tricks, and tools for tracking down hard-to-diagnose bugs.

Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about scripting major SQL Server operations like backing up, cloning databases, and server migrations.

In this week's edition of Throwback Thursday, we explore the magic of "self-healing" object variables and caching in VBA.

Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about building file names, verifying folder paths, and other related file system activities.

"Boring is beautiful." In today's Throwback Thursday, we're confronted with the uncomfortable truth that the best software is often uninteresting to write.

Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is all about testing: Python-inspired doc tests, my B-BEAR quick and dirty T-SQL test technique, and a proper SQL Server unit testing tool.

In today's edition of Throwback Thursday, we look back at past Access DevCon Vienna conferences (and forward to next week's conference).