Access & Excel
Access & Excel articles — insights, how-tos, and guides from YittBox.
June 26, 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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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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