Microsoft Access migration in Marietta, OH

Access Migration in Marietta

The database the retired engineer wrote

Marietta has a lot of long-established industrial and river-trade firms, and long-established firms have old Access databases. The pattern repeats almost exactly: it was built in the late nineties or early two thousands by somebody technical who has since retired, it holds twenty years of history, and nobody dares open the design view.

That is really a knowledge problem wearing a technology costume. The forms encode business rules that exist nowhere else, and the reports are the only description of what management cares about. The audit's real job is reading those rules out of the file and writing them down in English so you can confirm them.

Being in town helps on this one more than on any other service. We can bring the audit findings to the people who use it and go through the reports at a table, which is how the misunderstandings get caught early.

What we would look at first in Marietta

• Every table, query, form, report and macro, listed with what each one is actually for
• Which business rules live only in the forms, written out in plain English for you to confirm
• Who has ever edited the design, and whether that person still works here
• How many people use it at once, and what happens when two save together
• What twenty years of history is worth keeping, and what can be archived instead of migrated

What Microsoft Access migration includes in Marietta

• A free audit covering every object in the file, not a sample of it
• The business rules read out of the forms and written down for you to check
• A blueprint you approve before any data moves
• A verified data migration, with record counts and totals compared on both sides
• A parallel run where both systems operate until the numbers agree
• The system, the data and the documentation yours at hand-off, with every login

Being in town means the audit findings get walked through at a table with the people who use the database, which is where misunderstandings get caught.

How Access Migration works, step by step →