June 2008 Blog Posts (3)

I hate this...you are working away and Access dies. I mean dies. It just shuts down. No apparent reason, and nothing you are doing seems to have caused it. This happened to me a little while ago. I was typing code and in a blink Access was gone. There's that sinking feeling. Your stomach sinks to the bottom of the ocean and you feel sick...CORRUPTION. So what next. Well, thankfully, there didn't seem to be any major problem. I repaired it just to be sure, recompiled, rebuilt and everything se… Continue

It was a miserable weekend, wet and windy, though probably not raining over the damn dams. What does a city do when it runs out of water? Anyway, I had to work a little on Sunday and upload a new version to a client. At least I can sit in my office and login to their server to do it. No need to get dressed up and drive there for a 20 minute job. All went fine for a change. Then a little work on a database I hope to make available for purchase on my company website. Mmm...I am currently trying… Continue

This post is just an introduction to what I intend to do here. Nothing Earth shattering, just a running insight to what I do for a living, developing Access databases. At the moment I am developing in 2000 and 2003, mainly because of existing clients and most new clients are still running these versions. The other reason is I am not comfy with 2007 at this time. 2002 never really got a look in with me. Don't hold your breath for daily updates here as I have no idea how often they will be. You… Continue