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Microsoft Access Programmer Houston
Our programmers are dedicated to providing the best Access programming services available. We take pride in our ability to create customized Access database solutions for your business. Our Access programmer services will design and program an efficient Microsoft Access application for your Houston, Texas, business.
You can count on us for all your database programming needs! We have the skills and experience creating databases from scratch, designing forms for data entry for your Access database, and programming queries that pull out specific information from your database. If you need help with your Access database, we can help you right away.
MS Access is a highly flexible, robust, and reliable database program. Microsoft Access is the leading relational database management system in the world. We are a Microsoft Access developer company creating database applications for your business.
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 and Azure.
Microsoft's application framework for web development produces dynamic web pages. ASP.NET provides web programmers with a platform for building dynamic web sites, web applications (web apps), and web services that require a web solution.
MS Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing service. It is used for development, testing and deployment as well as managing software applications through a global network data centers managed by Microsoft. Azure now features SQL Server called Azure SQL.
The Best Microsoft Access Database Solutions owner, consultant, and principal programmer is Alison Balter - a recognized expert Microsoft Access consultant. Alison is the author of 15 Microsoft Access training books and videos. She is a frequent guest speaker at MS Access conferences and has developed hundreds of applications for businesses of all types.
We know your business data is important; we listen to your concerns, ask questions, and gather information from all stake holders. We discuss your needs and requirements for your database. We find out what you want, why you need various features so we can obtain as much information as possible. Once we have the information we need, we work with you to design the proper database architecture, plus the dashboards, the questions (queries), forms, and reports you need for an excellent database system.
Your data is important to your business and you need both to enter and retrieve data rapidly. The data stored in your company's database must be clean, secure, and allow for maximum usage. Our Microsoft Access developer team will create your Microsoft Access database for optimum efficiency with all the features you need. After we program your MS Access and SQL Server database you will have the capacity to manipulate your data so you get the information you need for every day activities and for making critical business decisions.
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.
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 Houston 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.
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This information is quite technical. We feature it here to give you some idea of the complex nature of Access programming for business.
Microsoft Access ODBC Connection Retry Logic
When Access loses the ODBC connection to an external data source, users have to close and re-open their Access databases in order to continue working with objects that use data from those external data sources. Access doesn't attempt to re-establish the dropped connection even if the connection is valid again and there is nothing that users can do to make Access try and reconnect to the external data source.
We've improved this experience so that now if Access loses the ODBC connection to an external data source, Access tries to reconnect to the data source automatically. In this scenario, you'll now see the following experience:
If Access loses the ODBC connection to an external data source you're trying to use, you'll see an error message describing the failure.
Access now attempts to reconnect to the data source automatically when performing operations that require a connection to an external data source. If the retry is successful, you can continue working with the data and database objects without having to close and re-open Access.
If the retry fails, you won't be able to work with objects that use the dropped external data sources but you can continue working with other areas of your database that aren't dependent upon the unreachable data sources.
If you attempt to use data or other objects again that rely on the external data connections, Access tries again to reconnect to the external data source.
This information originally appeared on the Microsoft Access 365 blog
Microsoft Access programmers frequently have issues with ODBC connections. This is not really an MS Access issue. However, until now a dropped connection required closing and reopening your Access database. Microsoft Access will now attempt to reconnect if an ODBC is lost.
Microsoft Enters Into First Municipal Partnership With City Of Houston, Texas
*This material first appeared in Biz Journals online magazine Sept. 10, 2018.(see attribution below
Microsoft Corp. of Seattle, Washington, announced a formal partnership with the City of Houston, TX, on May 4, 2018. This is the first agreement Microsoft has entered into with a municipal government in the United States.
The partnership reflects Microsoft's continuing investment in the Houston Texas area. It will expand and increase programs that enhance "The Internet of Things" and STEM programs within the city. The expanded relationship with Microsoft is considered another building block in the growth of the technology business with the city of Houston. From Microsoft's perspective this could be the beginning of mutually beneficial agreements involving Microsoft and other U.S. cities.
The agreement between Microsoft and the City of Houston is in the form of a "Memorandum of Understanding" that includes specific goals to improve technology programs within the City of Houston. Mayor Sylvester Turner of Houston stated, "Microsoft has chosen Houston as its first Internet Of Things official space in the nation. It's doing so exactly because of the ambitious goal we set for Houston to grow technology and innovation as its economic frontier."
Microsoft will not add employees in the city of Houston as a component of this agreement, but will provide these activities:
Adopt one or more middle schools or high schools in Houston and focus its computer literacy program on that school or schools.
Teach computer literacy to parents, veterans and workers transitioning to one career to another.
Host four "digicamps" for between 200 and 400 young people.
Offer a program called DigiGirlz camp.
Provide software supporting visibility to local tech startups.
Microsoft intends to add the "Internet Of Things" partners to the Houston to augment it's 'smart city initiatives', according to Cameron Carr, who is the Director of Internet Of Things at Microsoft. The Microsoft definition of Internet of Things is the connection of basic objects and their connection to Internet devices. The smart city component uses data collection to manage resources more efficiently.
In the city of Houston, the Internet of Things might be used to improve school safety or weather drones to monitor climate conditions. Other uses might be targeted at improving transportation within the city of Houston. Carr also added, "But there are a multitude of other areas that we can look into going forward,"
Microsoft will also provide cash grants and sponsorships to not for profit organizations as part of the agreement with the City of Houston. Discussions relating to this partnership began approximately one year ago with Microsoft's financial investment in the city starting shortly after these meetings.
Microsoft already has programs in place, including business start up initiatives and technology camps, in several cities in the U.S. Microsoft has been offering some resources to help grow local startups in Houston. This includes Zeus Inc., a facial recognition software firm.
From Biz Journals
Access Database Programmer Career Outlook
Microsoft Access database programmers, developers and consultants manage databases that use MS Office Access applications. Databases contain tables that store information and specialists design ways in which that information will be presented, distributed, and accessed. They decide which information to include in the database tables, how the tables will interact with each other, and create the queries that will enable users to access the information.
In Access, programming is the process of adding functionality to your database by using macros or Visual Basic for Applications. For example, suppose you have created a form and report and want to add button that opens the report when clicked on using either a macro or VBA procedure. You would then set up what "event" should occur if clicking on it (in this case opening) so that pressing it will run that code.
Microsoft Access database professionals are employed as programmers, developers, analysts, consultants and application designers by corporations, government agencies, academic institutions and companies specializing in integrated technology solutions. The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts excellent job growth for the field of database administration fueled by a need for highly skilled workers who can keep up with rapidly changing technologies Microsoft Corp. has an especially bright outlook for serious programmers, adding more features to their Office and SQL Server platforms.
Median average salary for Microsoft Access professionals, in 2018, was slightly over $81,000. The growth potential is currently estimated at 11% per annum.
The growth rate for the Microsoft Access programmer in Houston, TX is quite good, especially for programmers with advanced Access and SQL Server VBA coding skills.
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