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June 30, 2026

Is Microsoft Access Being Discontinued? What It Means for Your Business

Short answer: no. But if your business now depends on an Access database, the more useful question is whether Access is still the right home for it. Is Microsof…

June 24, 2026

Microsoft Access and HIPAA: The Honest Compliance Reality

This article is educational information, not legal or compliance advice. HIPAA compliance depends on your specific systems, data, workflows, and risk assessment…

June 22, 2026

Access Security, Auditing & Backups: What Access Can (and Can't) Do

Security, auditing, and backups are where Access's age shows most plainly. None of what follows means Access is unsafe to use — it means its built-in tools were…

June 20, 2026

Access Forms, Reports & Queries — and How They Map to a Web-App Rebuild

One of the most common worries we hear before a migration is some version of "will we lose the reports/forms/queries we've built up over the years?" The honest…

June 18, 2026

Microsoft Access VBA: What It Does, and Where It Becomes a Maintenance Liability

VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is what turns a basic Access database into something that actually automates a business process. It's also, more often than…

June 16, 2026

Microsoft Access Performance Tuning: Practical Fixes Before You Migrate

A slow Access database doesn't always mean it's time to migrate. A lot of the sluggishness we see is fixable with proper tuning — here's what actually works, an…

June 12, 2026

Access to Open-Source Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite Compared

Not every Access migration needs to stay inside the Microsoft ecosystem. MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite are all legitimate targets, each with a genuinely differe…

June 10, 2026

Access + SharePoint: When Lists Work as a Backend, and When They Don't

Using SharePoint Lists as a data backend instead of Access is a path a lot of Microsoft 365 shops consider, mostly because the tooling is already sitting there,…

June 9, 2026

Will We Lose Our Data When We Convert From Access or Excel?

It's the worry that stops a lot of teams from modernizing: what happens to years of records? Here's exactly how a safe conversion protects your data. Will we lo…

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