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July 22, 2026
ETL and Data Migration Out of Access: Moving Your Data Cleanly
Whatever you're migrating an Access database to — SQL Server, Azure SQL, Dataverse, or a custom web app's database — the data itself has to move safely across,…
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July 22, 2026
Database Normalization for Access Users: A Practical Guide
"Normalization" sounds academic, but it's one of the most practically useful concepts for anyone who's built or inherited an Access database organically over ti…
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July 22, 2026
Access + ODBC and Linked Tables: Connecting to a Real Server Database
A common first step out of Access's file-size and concurrency limits is keeping Access as the front-end while moving the actual data to a real server database l…
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July 22, 2026
Access Front-End vs. Back-End: What Each Actually Holds
Once a database is split (see our companion guide on splitting), it's worth being precise about what belongs in each half — getting this wrong is the most commo…
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July 22, 2026
How (and Why) to Split an Access Database Into Front-End and Back-End
If you take one piece of practical advice from this whole cluster, make it this one: if your Access database is still a single .accdb file with tables, forms, a…
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July 22, 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…
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July 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…
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July 22, 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…
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July 22, 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…
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