Preventing Record Deletion in Microsoft Access

In this video, I will show you how to prevent a user from deleting a customer record unless certain conditions are met, for example, the customer has to be marked inactive. If they are still active, they cannot be deleted.

Anderson from North Hempstead, New York (a Platinum Member) asks: We have customers who, for one reason or another, will no longer be customers anymore. They might die, retire, move out of our area, etc. I want to allow my users to delete a customer but only once he's been marked inactive. I feel like this is an extra check preventing them from deleting a customer too easily. What do you recommend?

Members

Members will learn how to handle deleting records that may have related child records in multiple linked back-end tables where you can't rely on referential integrity and cascade deletes. I'll also show you how to require a password to delete a record. 

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