Week in Review: January 7, 2023

Just Published

^{This section includes videos, articles, and interesting discussions from the past 7 days.}

Articles

• Access Forever

  • Access code signing is back, by Karl Donaubauer

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Digitally Sign Your Microsoft Access Database
  • VBA – Get a String’s Hash

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • AEU11: A Baker's Dozen of Tips, Tricks & Tools
  • Using the new VBA Project Signing feature - Part 1
  • Speed Test 15: Grouped Aggregate Queries

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Scope vs. Extent in VBA
  • My Policy on ChatGPT-Generated Content
  • ChatGPT
  • Copyright Implications of ChatGPT Content
  • Beware of "Over-Normalizing" Your Database

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • A Baker's Dozen of tips, tricks, and tools in Access (1:01:23): by Karl Donaubauer

• Crystal Long (YouTube channel)

  • Read Word Selection Using Access (8:33)

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Access in 2023 (17:05): Microsoft Access: Alive & Well In 2023
  • Reset for the New Year (12:13): How Can I Reset My Microsoft Access Database for the New Year?
  • Compact with VBA (14:37): How To Compact and Repair Your Microsoft Access Database Using VBA
  • Import & Followup (19:23): How to Import New Leads into Your Customer Table and Make a Follow Up Record in Microsoft Access
  • Select Record in Subform (15:00): How to Select a Specific Record in a Subform in Microsoft Access

New to Me

^{This section includes content I discovered this week that has been around for awhile.}

• The End of Programming, by Matt Welsh

Upcoming Access User Group Events

^{NOTE: Only English-language user group meetings with scheduled guest speakers or topics are listed.  For a complete list of upcoming events, visit the Access User Group event calendar.}

• January 31, 2023: Colin Riddington -  Translate & Speak Using Access
• February 1, 2023: Thomas Möller - State-of-the-art charts in Access with chart.js
• February 2, 2023: Linda Ewen - (topic to be announced)
• March 1, 2023: Maria Barnes - Optimizing Queries in SQL Server
• April 5, 2023: Duane Hookom - (topic details to follow)
• April 20-21, 2023: Access DevCon Vienna (tentative dates)
• May 3, 2023: Peter Bryant - Automating DSN-less Communications to SQL Server
• June 7, 2023: Thomas Pfoch - Maps for Microsoft Access
• October 4, 2023: Juan Soto - (topic details to follow)
• December 6, 2023: Mike Wolfe - (topic to be confirmed)

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Access Roadmap

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between last week (2022-12-31) and this week (2023-01-07).  The development priorities were last updated on October 12, 2022.

Listed below is a snapshot of the official Access Roadmap (NOTE: as of publication, this link leads to an unfiltered view of the entire Microsoft 365 roadmap because as of the week of December 10, 2022, there are no Access items shown on the roadmap).

"In Development", "Rolling Out", and "Launched" are Microsoft terms that I pulled straight from the public roadmap.

"Development Priorities" do not appear on the Access Roadmap.  Instead, they get updated from time to time in official Access blog posts.  I'll include a link to the official Access blog post that lists the current development priorities as they get updated.

Development Priorities

The items listed below reflect Microsoft's order of priority and were published in the following article, Our Road Ahead - Microsoft Access Engineering Priorities Oct 2022.

New priorities added since the previous set of priorities are shown in bold below.  Dropped priorities are struck through.

1. Continued Focus on Monthly Issue Fixes (Monthly Issue Fix Blog)
2. Inconsistent Database Error Fix
3. New Macro Signing Support
4. New (Modern) Web Browser Control (to support Chromium Edge)
5. Dataverse Connector Data Type Support for Floating Point
6. Dataverse Connector Data Type Support for Rich Text
7. Dataverse Connector support to export to a specific Dataverse solution or publisher
8. Enabling Large Address Aware (LAA) for 32-Bit Access
9. SQL Monaco Editor
10. New Microsoft Graph Data Connector

In Development

None.

Rolling Out

None.

Launched

None.