MS Access As A Dev Tool
Access continues to be a highly efficient tool for business database development.
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MS Access is a highly flexible, robust, and reliable database program. Microsoft Access is the leading relational database management system in the world. Find out more about Microsoft Access programming at our Access Tech Talk section. We are your expert Microsoft Access programmer for Akron, OH.
Access + SQL Server
SQL Server is an enterprise relational database management system from Microsoft. We use SQL Server as the database server for data storage and data retrieval to and from Microsoft Access as well as other software applications, like ASP.NET or Azure.
Access Repair
Slow, bloated, or corrupted Access databases cost time and money. We diagnose issues, run Compact & Repair, rebuild indexes, optimize queries and forms, and recover data where possible. The result is faster load times and fewer crashes in daily use.
VBA, Forms & Reports
Automate the work your team does every day. We build custom forms, reports, and VBA procedures that validate data, generate documents and emails, and integrate
with Excel/Outlook/ODBC sources. Fewer manual steps mean fewer errors.
We Are Your Microsoft Access Database Experts
About Us
Our president and lead developer at MS Access Solutions, Alison Balter, brings years of experience as a highly skilled Microsoft Access developer and independent trainer. She's known for her ability to take complex technical concepts and explain them in ways that are easy to understand. Alison has authored multiple books on Microsoft Access development and leads our programming firm as both owner and principal programmer.
How We Work
At MS Access Solutions, our approach is centered on understanding your unique business needs first. By listening carefully and asking the right questions, we gather information from all stakeholders to fully grasp what you need from your database and why certain features matter. This collaborative process ensures the final database architecture, dashboards, queries, forms, and reports are tailored specifically to make your work more efficient and effective.
Manufacturing Database Solution: Custom Access Frontend with SQL Backend
A mid-sized manufacturing company approached us needing a complete database overhaul to manage their complex production workflows. Due to NDA restrictions, we cannot share their name, but we can discuss the comprehensive solution we built.
We designed a robust Microsoft Access frontend application connected to a SQL Server database for secure, scalable data storage. Our team created custom tables to track inventory, production schedules, quality control metrics, and shipping logistics. We established clear relationships between tables to ensure data integrity across all manufacturing processes.
The solution features intuitive forms that allow shop floor managers to input production data quickly, while executive dashboards provide real-time visibility into operations. We developed complex queries to generate production reports, identify bottlenecks, and analyze efficiency metrics. Custom macros automate repetitive tasks like generating work orders and \updating inventory levels.
Using VBA code, we built specialized functions for barcode scanning integration, automated email notifications for quality issues, and sophisticated data validation routines. The SQL backend ensures multiple users can access the system simultaneously without performance degradation, while the Access frontend provides the familiar interface employees needed.
This tailored solution transformed their paper-based processes into a streamlined digital workflow, reducing errors by 40% and improving production visibility across all departments.
Example Projects
Corporate Database
Microsoft Access front-end and SQL Server back-end database
Access Forms Development
Access data entry form connecting to SQL Server back-end database
Accounting Company
ASP.NET website with SQL Server back-end database
Corporate Reports
MS Access Report created with SQL Server database
Clients Love Our Work
Sheldon Bloch, Oil and Gas Company
Alison from MS Access Solutions has provided both training and mentoring services to us over the past several years. Our developers use Alison Balter's books on programming with Microsoft Access as a desk reference. They have provided our staff members with much-needed training in Visual Basic, client/server development, SQL Server, and Microsoft Access. This has helped us to ensure that our employees can properly keep up with the ever-changing technologies. MS Access Solutions has also provided our staff with mentoring on an as-needed basis, providing expertise that helped our in-house programmers to overcome various hurdles. More Reviews
Lisa Dosch, Motion Picture Editors Guild - Local 700
Alison Balter at MS Access Solutions developed the application that helps us to properly service all of our members. This program handles billing, payments, tracking of jobs worked, available list, and other important data about our members. The system automates many tasks that were previously performed manually, allowing our employees to more cost-effectively use their time. This client/server system is used by employees in our Minneapolis MN and New York offices. MS Access Solutions and their staff worked with us to develop the necessary specifications and design documents, and then programmed, tested, and implemented the application throughout our organization. More Reviews
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The material below originally appeared in Alison Balter's book Mastering Microsoft Office Access 2007 Development. and is reprinted here with the author's permission. There may be references to "Figures" or "Chapters" that are not reprintable and are not used on this page.
Other Properties of a Form
Additional properties of a form, although quite powerful, do not fit neatly into any of the other property categories. Microsoft places these properties under the Other properties of the form. They are listed here:
- Pop Up indicates whether the form always remains on top of other windows. This property is often set to Yes, along with the Modal property, for custom dialog boxes.
- Modal indicates whether focus can be removed from a form while it's open. When the Modal property is set to Yes, the form must be closed before the user can continue working with the application. As mentioned, this property is used with the Pop Up property to create custom dialog boxes.
- Display on SharePoint Site determines whether the form will be displayed on the SharePoint site.
- Cycle controls the behavior of the Tab key in the form. The options are All Records, Current Record, and Current Page. When the Cycle property is set to All Records, the user moves to the next record on a form when she presses Tab from the last control on the previous record. With Current Record, the user is moved from the last control on a form to the first control on the same record. The Current Page option refers only to multipage forms; when the Cycle property is set to Current Page, the user tabs from the last control on the page to the first control on the same page. All three options are affected by the tab order of the objects on the form.
- Ribbon Name specifies the ribbon to apply when the form opens. Chapter 23, "Working with and Customizing Ribbons," covers ribbons.
- Shortcut Menu, Shortcut Menu Bar property indicates whether a shortcut menu is displayed when the user clicks with the right mouse button over an object on the form. The Shortcut Menu Bar property lets you associate a custom menu with a control on the form or with the form itself. As with a standard menu bar, a shortcut menu bar is created by choosing Toolbars from the View menu and then selecting Customize.
- Help File and Help Context id enable you to associate a specific Help file and topic with a form.
- Has Module determines whether the form has a class module. If no code is associated with your form, setting this property to No can noticeably decrease load time and improve your form's performance while decreasing the database's size.
- Fast Laser Printing determines whether lines and rectangles print along with the form. When this property is set to Yes, you'll notice a definite improvement when printing the form to a laser printer.
- Tag property is an extra property used to store miscellaneous information about the form. This property is often set and monitored at runtime to store necessary information about the form. You could use the Tag property to add a tag to each of several forms that should be unloaded as a group.
- Use Default Paper Size property is used to determine if when printed, the form prints using the default paper size setting.
Author Attribution
This material originally appeared in Alison Balter's book Mastering Microsoft Office Access 2007 Development and is reprinted here with the author's permission.
Expert Microsoft Access Prograammer In Minneapolis, MN
When you need a Microsoft Access programmer for your Minneapolis, Minnesota business, call MS Access Solutions at (323) 285-0939. With over 25 years of experience, we specialize in Microsoft Access programming solutions. Our team develops Access database applications across various sectors, including healthcare and hospitials, government, United States military, education including colleges and local school diststricts, agriculture, human resources, and insurance. We handle complex Microsoft Access and SQL Server database programming, as well as smaller tasks like repairing Access forms, broken reports, damaged queries, Access macros, and Visual Basic For Applications (VBA) code. We can create custom Microsoft Access applications or help maintain your current Microsoft Access database.
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