Convert databases from MS Access to MySQL
Access2MySQL Pro Convertor is a program which provides you with the opportunity to perform MS Access (mdb) to MySQL and MySQL to Microsoft Access database conversions, simply by having several wizard-like configurated options within the application. Convert your databases using professional conversion tools.

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Convert Old Version Workgroup File
Convert workgroup information file from a previous version of Microsoft Access.

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Creating and populating MS Access files from other databases, using DTS
If you are using databases like Oracle or SQL Server and you want to copy data from them to some other database that is not linked to your data in any way, you can do this by using some DTS like SQL Server, but the exact scenario that compelled me to develop this utility was to “do all in an automated way”. I developed this application to convert my source data to MS Access file format but the same can be used to convert any kind of data source to MS Access.

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Convert a previous-version menu macro to a menu
This procedure creates the new style of menu bar or shortcut menu from macros you created in a previous version of Microsoft Access.

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How to Convert a Database to Access Format
Access is a popuular Microsoft database program, designed to quickly gather and manipulate information. Access features a greater range of database objects than many of its competitors, as well as the ability to convert databases by importing them into Access. Here's how to do it.

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Access 2007 - Understanding the Changes
Each new version of Access comes with its own set of benefits and features, and it is important for those considering upgrading their existing Access databases to the new format to be aware of these changes and the effects they will have. Most of the changes made in the newest version of Microsoft Access 2007 are positive, but it is still important to be prepared.

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Forms and Databases
It is now possible to set up a web form that records data from users in a format that you can import into Microsoft Access or Excel. This method works with with Microsoft Access versions 2 or later, and Microsoft Excel version 7 or later. The import instructions are for version 7 for Windows 95, but other versions are extremely similiar.

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Use existing custom toolbars and startup settings in Access 2007
This topic explains how custom toolbars and menu bars that you created in earlier versions of Access behave when you open those older databases in Microsoft Office Access 2007. This topic also explains how to turn off the Ribbon so that you can use just your custom toolbars and menu bars. The Ribbon is part of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface. In this article: * How earlier version databases behave in Office Access 2007 * Open and use an earlier version database that contains custom toolbars * Open and use an earlier version database with custom startup behavior * Turn off the Ribbon and use just your custom menu bars

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Convert Access databases from previous versions.
Microsoft Access 2007 Tutorials for beginners.

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Splitting a Database
Most of the databases we will create in our lessons are referred to as desktop databases because they are meant to be installed in the computer where they will be used. For maintenance purposes, the problem with this approach is that, if you distribute your database to the users or if you have distributed the database to a few people already, if you modify the database, you will have to visit each one's computer to install a new version of the database or to modify the database on each user's computer. For example, imagine that some or all users of the database call you and say that a certain form or report seems to produce a wrong result and you suspect that an expression in the database is false.

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Import an Access 2.0 database into an Access 2007 file
If you use an existing database in the Access 2.0 format (.mdb), you can import tables, queries, and macros from that database into a Microsoft Office Access 2007 database (.accdb). To import forms, reports, or modules into Office Access 2007, you must first convert the database by using an earlier version of Access, open the database in Access 2007, and then convert the database into the Access 2007 database format. The following sections in this article explain how to perform each of these tasks. What do you want to do? * Open an Access 2.0 database in Access 2007 * Import data from an Access 2.0 database * Convert an Access 2.0 database by using Access 2003, Access 2002, or Access 2000

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Introduction to Data Sheets
Many techniques allow you to create a database, the fastest of which consists of using one of the provided examples. Microsoft Access 97 shipped with 22 sample databases while Microsoft Access 2000 ships with 10. Furthermore, the 97 version allowed to provide sample data into the database. This is not available with the 2000 release. The databases that ship with Microsoft Access can help you in two main ways: they provide a fast means of creating a database and you can learn from their structure.

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Convert Microsoft Access Tables, Forms, and Reports
Several changes introduced by Microsoft Access 2002 might affect the behavior of your version 1.x or 2.0 applications. This tutorial provides more information about those changes.

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Using Visual InterDev with Microsoft Access
In Microsoft Visual InterDev version 1.0, you can create dynamic Web pages displaying live data from various types of databases, including Microsoft Access. This white paper gives an overview of the Internet features available with Microsoft Access 97 databases and some advantages of using Visual InterDev to display that data. It then describes how to connect to a Microsoft Access database and how to display its data in Microsoft Visual InterDev, and details some limitations of this functionality.

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Which file format should I use in Access 2007?
Microsoft Office Access 2007 introduces a new file format that uses the .accdb file extension. In addition, Office Access 2007 continues to provide some support for the file format used in earlier versions of Access. This article explains why you should use the new file format whenever possible, and why you might need to use the earlier version file format in some instances. You will also learn explicitly how to convert a database to the new file format. In this article * The new file format (.accdb) * The earlier version file format (.mdb) * Converting to the new file format

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Dabbling in Live Databases
Many words have been written about databases and Web sites, and these are some more--but with a twist, because we cover what you need to know. Databases can be a complex and hairy subject, with a vocabulary seemingly all their own. The good news is that a lot of database hoo-hah is verbal smoke-and-mirrors, simple concepts that we've seen a thousand times before in programming and computing, but with new names so that database specialists can claim a professional niche.

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Help, Tutorials and Tips
Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS). It lets you create relational databases, which means that Access databases can link to tables that have similar fields. Access databases are the workhorses of many offices, often used for mailing lists, phone lists, and as address books. But there's a lot more to Access than that, as the articles in this section prove.

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Tips and Tutorials
Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS). It lets you create relational databases, which means that Access databases can link to tables that have similar fields. Access databases are the workhorses of many offices, often used for mailing lists, phone lists, and as address books. But there's a lot more to Access than that, as the articles in this section prove.

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How to convert an MDE to an MDB
If you have written an MDB database file and you want other users to preform applications with it, then you can convert it into an MDE file. But now you want to convert it it back into an MDB file and you don't want to change any codes. This process is simple, keep reading to find out more.

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How to create a macro that will link tables to external databases
There are times when information needed is contained in other Access databases. For example, there may be one database that contains customer service information while another database contains customer finance information. The administrator may not want all of the information to reside in one database because the two databases are used by two different groups.

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What are databases and why do I care?
When working with databases many acronyms and terms are thrown around. Often this can make people feel very overwhelmed. This article will help you greatly. It explains what a database is and how you use it effectively.

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Access 2000 Stored Procedures
Stored procedures offer many advantages like single command database operations, better performance, and additional security. Stored procedures, called Parameter Queries, can be used with Access databases starting with the 2000 version.

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Merge Records from Two Identical Databases
Several months ago I was asked to create a utility to simplify the process of combining data from identical MS Access databases into one file. Not long after completing that project, someone posted a request to the newsgroup, comp.databases.ms-access, asking for suggestions for doing the same with his data. I replied to his post with an outline of the steps taken to perform my data merge.

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Designing Good Relational Databases
Databases have a reputation for being difficult to construct and hard to maintain. The power of modern database software makes it possible to create a database with a few mouse-clicks. The databases created this way, however, are typically the databases that are hard to maintain and difficult to work with because they are designed poorly. Modern software makes it easy to construct a database, but doesn't help much with the design aspect of database creation. Database design has nothing to do with using computers. It has everything to do with research and planning. The design process should be completely independent of software choices.

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Excel to Access Converter Utility program
This utility program allows you to convert an Excel spreadsheet file which contains 'flat-file' data into one or more tables in an Access database. The program creates primary and foreign keys in the tables so that 'One to Many' or even 'Many to Many' related tables can be created automatically. You just import the Excel file into the program, create a template which tells the program which columns in the spreadsheet should be copied to which fields in which tables, click a button and the program will extract the data into a series of separate tables which can then be exported to a new database via .csv files. The program can also be used to create properly 'normalised' tables from data in MS Works or any other database by first exporting the data to an Excel spreadsheet (or .csv file which can then be imported into Excel). Full instructions are included. Version. This version runs under Access 2003 (not tried it on Access 2007).

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MS-Access 2007 Table creation
Relational databases are constituted by one or more tables than contain the information in an organized form. Databases usually contain more than one table and each one will have a fixed number of fields.

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Compact your database with VBA
Have you experienced the problem with increasing size of your MS Access files? Do you need to compact your databases from time to time, especially when they reach specific file size? Then we have a solution build in VBA that could be easily implemented to any MS Access database (this code applies to Access Version 2000 and later).

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Convert Numbers to Dates
Learn how to convert numbers into date (video tutorial).

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Use handwriting recognition in East Asian languages
Learn: Write on a boxed area on the screen, Write anywhere on the screen, See a list of suggested characters as you write, Increase or decrease the number of writing boxes in the Boxed Input box, Convert Kana to Kanji (only in Japanese language version of Microsoft Word), Insert writing in handwritten form (Word and Outlook only).

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Convert a database to the Access 2007 file format
You can convert a database that was created by using Microsoft Office Access 2003, Access 2002, Access 2000, or Access 97 to the new Microsoft Office Access 2007 file format. You should use the new file format whenever possible because it supports new features, such as multivalued fields and attachments. However, a database in the new Access 2007 file format (.accdb) cannot be opened or linked to with earlier versions of Access, and the new format no longer supports replication or user-level security. If you need to use your Access 2007 database with earlier versions of Access, or if you need to use replication or user-level security, you must use a file format from an earlier version.

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Backing up a Microsoft Access 2007 Database
One of the rules of protecting your work and data is backing it up. We learned it from the first computer science class and we all do it, whether it's saving your vacation photos on a flash disk or burning a cd with the latest book you wrote. This also applies to databases: using a back-up easily protects against any data loss. Plus, by reverting to an older version you can "undo" actions that the command "undo" is not able to help you with.

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Open an existing database
This topic describes the different methods you can use to open existing Microsoft Office Access 2007 databases. You can open databases from Windows Explorer or from within Access itself. You can open multiple databases at once, and you can also create desktop shortcuts that open database objects directly. What do you want to do? * Open an Access database from Windows Explorer * Open a database from within Access * Open multiple databases at the same time * Create a desktop shortcut to open a database object

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Activate Microsoft Office programs
The following information is provided to help you to activate your 2007 Microsoft Office system programs. For troubleshooting information, visit the Support site. In this article * How do I activate my Microsoft Office programs? * How do I activate at a later time? * How can I tell whether my software has been activated? * What is a trial version? * What does convert mean? * What is activation, grace period, and reduced functionality?

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Access 2007 Deciding Whether to Change Database Formats
The newest version of Access, Microsoft Access 2007, marks the end of the old familiar .mdb file format, replaced with the .accdb file extension. It is important for Access users to become familiar with the new format in order to be able to make an informed decision of how, and whether, to transition older databases into the new .accdb format.

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Error Handling in VBA
Every function or sub should contain error handling. Without it, a user may be left viewing the faulty code in a full version of Access, while a run-time version just crashes.

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Database Corruption & Repair
A Microsoft Access database may consist of data and indexes as well as the database objects: tables, queries, reports, forms, macros and modules. The best way to protect against loss of data and databases due to corruption is to backup your databases often. Microsoft Access provides a Compact and Repair utility to assist in recovering corrupted databases. However, these utilities have limitations and may not fully recover the database, its objects or its data management functions.

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Learn Database SQL Technology
Structured Query Language (SQL) is a language that was developed by IBM for processing data in mainframe databases. The relational nature of databases and the ease of SQL usage has made SQL the standard language for databases. SQL technology is also standardized which makes it ideal for usage across multiple fields. Learning SQL database technology will enable you to program and maintain any database with ease.

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Sharing Previous Version Database
How to share a previous-version secured database across several versions of Microsoft Access.

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Ways to get started if you're using a database for the first time
Working with databases and database objects can be a daunting task when you first get started. The following information should help you become more familiar with the components that make up a Microsoft Access database. Learn: Databases: What they are and how they work, Tables: Store and manage your data.

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Linking with IBM AS400(iSeries) Tables
We can convert IBM iSeries (AS400) DB2 Table into dBase Format, download and Link or Import into MS-Access Databases. The downloading procedure must be created and run from AS400 Menus. If it requires several steps before the output file being transferred to local drive then it can be automated with Macro Scripts. The key strokes can be recorded and modified in such a way that the target file goes to a specific location on the Local Machine with a predefined name that remains linked with the Microsoft Access Database.

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