While I have not used Microsoft Access for a long time (no serious work since Access 2.0 circa 1995), I can’t believe how the product has evolved. The Access 2013 interface is virtually unusable for simple data cleansing/mining tasks. I mistakenly thought Access would be right tool to take some Excel data, add some primary […]
“Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.” —Mahatma Gandhi
If you receive this advice from Microsoft SQL Server: “You should correct this situation by resetting the owner of database ‘mydatabase’ using the ALTER AUTHORIZATION statement.” I found the easiest solution is to actually drop the existing user account in the database and then change the owner to the server’s login account using the following […]
My main PC, which was running Windows 8, failed. Rather than repair the Windows 8 OS, I reverted back to Windows 7—and the desktop experience is much better. Just in case another fresh install is ever needed, below are the free software applications I install and recommend: VLC media player – VideoLAN is the best […]