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Access with MBS Nav SQL
Edward Mastoloni 
     
4 years ago
A little about me, for years I have played with Access and become adept with Excel, all self-taught at night.  I have an accounting background and an MBA in corporate finance.  I am currently the CFO and Operations Manager for a small manufacturing company with only 46 employees in NYC. Our ERP is Microsoft Dynamics NAV (now call Dynamics 365 Business Central https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/business-central/overview/ ), which is awesome and very powerful, but simple tasks like data retrieval, simplified forms and customized reports for many less savvy users is very difficult.   I have been following Richard's Youtube channel for years but only became a full member a few months ago.  It's been some of the best $ we have ever spent on software and I wanted to take a moment thank you for everything and briefly explain my usage of Access.  Developed a few very simple databases.  I was always amazed by its simplicity, but never learned anything beyond the absolute basics (I didnt think I would ever learn VBA).  When I would ask others in the database programming world, if Access was good, I always got the response that it was nothing more than a toy for small businesses and couldnt handle large data tables.  So for years, I never thought it would be worth my time. During the downtime from COVID, I started to think, how can I use this time to help what other people in my company have been complaining about for years with our ERP.    Now, I have been able to do so many things with Access now that I would have otherwise had to pay huge development fees to our ERP developers that charge me $250/hr.  I have developed an Access DB (with linked tables to our SQL based ERP), thanks to you, with tons of customized forms and reports. Though we don't allow any data entry via Access (for many different reasons but most are related security and triggers in the ERP that would otherwise get bypassed by Access), the vast majority of the users only need it for data retrieval and analysis. I have also developed another Access DB that is available to our traveling sales force and whose table are imported automatically from TXT files (exported from the ERP on a schedule). The next step would be to somehow publish the sales reps DB online so they can access the data via a browser instead of RDP for only a laptop. Every day or so, I am adding new features to both Access DBs, all thanks to Richard!
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4 years ago
Thanks for the kind words, Edward. So glad I could help you out. :)

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