"File not found" error (Error 53) when opening Access database
I'm getting a "File not found" (Error 53) error when trying to open an Access database (.accdb file). The error appears during the database startup process and points to a VBA subroutine declaration line: The error message mentions "The file was not found where specified" which suggests VBA is looking for a file during project compilation, but I can't identify what file it's looking for. Has anyone encountered this issue where the same Access file works with some SQL Server backends but fails to even open with others?
Access Northwind Dev Ed - Error GetRandomPkValue
Just downloaded the newest MS Access and selected a new Northwind Dev Ed as the first DB to create. It fails to open due to an error in the code as it searched for a non existing function GetRandomPkValue... The purpose of the missing function is to return a random primary key value by passing in the variables for a query name and a field name and then it should return a "random" numerical ID from those possible based upon the passed in variables... My question is, Is the new Northwind Dev designed to fail on purpose or did I manage to download a corrupted incomplete version or???
Access Error on File Import through VBA
We are running a custom VBA routine in Microsoft Access that imports and parses text files into a database. Starting around September 9th, some machines began showing an error dialog during this process. The dialog mentions a failure in the VBA Regular Expression engine. The error does not occur consistently. On the same machine, the import may succeed several times and then fail (roughly 1 out of 4 attempts). The behavior appears to vary depending on the input file. The VBA code itself has been unchanged for years and continues to function correctly on older builds. We are wondering if this is related to a recent update in Access or the VBA runtime. Has anyone else encountered this behavior, and are there known workarounds or fixes? Going to leave version numbers out of this post because it keeps getting deleted and I'm not sure why. This is my 4th or 5th attempt to write this post and it keep getting auto-moderated.
What's the cleanest way to skip NULLs when looping through Recordest in VBA?
I've been working on a legacy Access app, and I find myself looping through a DAO recordest to process a bunch of fields. The thing is , some of those fields occasionally contain NULLs, and I've noticed they can easily break logic when you're not careful, especially when doing string concatenation, arithmetic, or conditional checks. I'm doing something like this : If Note IsNull(rs!MyField) Then ' Do something with rs!MyField End If Which works, but when you've got multiple fields or are writing more compact logic, it starts to get messy real fast. I'm wondering. Is there a cleaner or more elegant way to handle or skip NULLs ? PS ; I am having issues with the code editorSSMA For Access not recognising DateTime/Extended fields
I have already posted up about this here: https://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/threads/ssma-bug-with-date-time-extended-fields.334442/ The current version of SSMA fails to recognise fields set to the DateTime/Extended when trying to migrate to Azure SQL It fails to match the data type and therefore fails to migrate any of the data from any table with any of that type of field. I'd appreciate it if this could be fed back to the SSMA team.
keep group footers together on one page
I have a report that has a fixed number of detail lines per grouping. There is one page per set of detail records. It needs to be grouped to three levels. I can see how to skip to a new page for each group. I can't see any way of making sure that group totals always appear together at the bottom of the required page and not on a page by themselves. Any ideas? Grouped A, B, C At the end of group C, include totals for group C at the foot of the page. At the end of group B, suppress the new page for group C and print the totals for groups B and C. At the end of group A, suppress the new page for groups B and C and print the totals for groups A, B and C. On the last page of the report, suppress the new page for groups A, B and C and print the totals for groups A, B and C along with the report totals. This is such an obvious requirement that I suspect the answer is, as ever, suck it, loser. Optimism rules! Well, usually the first replies are boilerplate botted responses using keywords that are entirely useless. "Here's how to create an Access report." "Here's how to create grouping in Access reports." "Here's how to throw a page after a group in Access reports." "Here's how to stop access reports ending with a blank page." It's only one downvote but it makes me feel better.MS Access Forum Web Design Irritation
🙃 Can we take a vote and get a show of hands for how many MS Access Forum users find the little social media bar on the side of the screen not only unnecessary but also an annoying waste of virtual real estate? 😉 Any chance the site admins could reconsider the location of that annoying little intrusion to possibly find someplace else to try and recruit new members to your OTHER social media outlets? 🤣 A wise old saying that so many members of the current human population seem to have forgotten or never learned is, "Just because you can do something, doesn't necessarily mean that you should." If more people understood those words I would not be here right now typing these words... 🤪 LMAO Have a wonderful day everybody!
Linking Access to Excel does not work
I have created a simple Access that is connected to a linked table to an Excel file as a data source. I can run the Access without any problems. It accesses the data and everything is fine. But when my colleague wants to run the Access, she gets the following error message "Microsoft Access “C:\Users\User\ [Source Path] .xlsx” is not a valid path. Please ensure that the path is entered correctly and that you are connected to the server where the file is located." We use OneDrive/SharePoint in our company and the colleague has access to the folder where the Excel and Access files are located. But it doesn't work. I think it's the path, as it seems to be local. But I don't understand why. This Access in turn serves as a source for another Excel (the target file). There it has a similar error message: ‘’Microsoft Excel [DataFormat.Error] “ [File Name] .accdb” is not a valid path. Please ensure that the path is entered correctly and that you are connected to the server where the file is located." I can open and run both the Access and the target Excel without any problems. Thanks a lot in advance. I appreciate your help a lot.
