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Selected SQL Server Magazine Articles by Rick Dobson, Ph.D.

 

Title Synopsis
Filtering SQL Server Data with Access Forms Discover two approaches to programming custom filters from Access forms.  These approaches rely on either an Access form's Filter property or the ServerFilter property. The article demonstrates both approaches with the authors table and an Access form that lets users filter authors by their home state. Your needs and experience will help determine the best method for you.
Learn how Access extracts dates and times from SQL Server databases in the formats that you need.  In particular, this article drills down on how to use the Convert and DatePart function with a sample table containing datetime values.
SQL-DMO lets you program anything that Enterprise Manager lets you perform graphically.  Access developers can program SQL-DMO from Access projects to build subsets of SQL Server functionality into their custom applications.  This article shows you how easy it is to get started doing this.
Securing SQL Server Through Access
Learn the basics of securing SQL Server databases with Access projects.  In particular, you will discover the differences between login and user accounts as well as roles.  Step-by-step examples hold your hand through the process of securing an Access database.
Control the Flow This article provides T-SQL and VBA samples that demonstrate the use of the IF...ELSE statement in T-SQL stored procedures from Access projects.  The article also demonstrates how to process a Return Value from a stored procedure in an Access project
Adapting BOL Examples for Access SQL Server Books Online (BOL) is one of the best routes for getting up to speed on SQL Server, which might be why Microsoft makes BOL available with SQL Server and the Microsoft Office 2000 Developer Edition (MOD).  Many BOL code examples target the SQL Server Query Analyzer, but they need tweaking to work in the stored procedure templates available with Access projects or in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) projects.  This article gives Access developers what they need to put BOL to work for them.
Using SQL Server Stored Procedures with Access Projects Stored procedures are a new, important topic for Access developers, but Access developers switching to SQL Server with Access projects might find the syntax of and techniques for building and using stored procedures unfamiliar.  Before Access 2000, Access developers couldn't create stored procedures. With Access 2000 and Access projects, you can write your own Transact SQL (T-SQL) scripts in stored procedures.  Get the basics in this article so you can start putting stored procedures to use in your applications.
  The Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) makes SQL Server technology available in development contexts that were previously restricted to the Jet database engine. This new database engine, which ships with all versions of Office 2000 that contain Access 2000, falls between SQL Server and Jet in size and power as a compelling new option.
SQL Server Views with Access 2000 With Access 2000, developers can use Access's rapid prototyping tools to take advantage of Access projects (a new file type) to build SQL Server solutions.   This article illustrates techniques for managing SQL Server views from Access projects.
Defining Databases and Tables with Access Projects This article demonstrates techniques for easily creating SQL Server databases and tables from Access projects.  This is a new Access capability introduced for the first time with Access 2000.
The Power of Two: Office 2000 and SQL Server 7.0 Office 2000's new data-access capabilities—the introduction of ADO and the new Access .adp file type—make it nearly as easy for developers to connect with a SQL Server data source as with a Jet data source.  Get a rigorous intro to what you can accomplish with this article.