Independent Product Reviews
Over the years, FMS products have been reviewed in many industry
publications. Discover what so many industry gurus think about FMS products.
Microsoft Access/VB6 Products
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SQL Server Products
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Visual Basic 6/VB6 Products
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Microsoft Access Products
Alison Balter, a renowned author, trainer, writer and conference speaker
in the Microsoft Access community is a big fan of our products and has
personally used them for many years. In her book, Mastering Office Access
2003, she wrote about many of our products in her chapter,
Third-Party Tools that Can Help You Get Your Job Done Effectively,
which you can read online. She covered these products from FMS:
- Total Access Admin
- Total Access Analyzer
- Total Access Components
- Total Access Detective
- Total Access Emailer
- Total Access Memo
- Total Access Speller
- Total Access Startup
- Total Access Statistics
- Total Visual Agent
- Total Visual CodeTools
- Total Visual SourceBook
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"The FMS Total Access Admin helps you perform tasks such as fixing
database corruption and logging off idle users in order to perform
maintenance." - Advisor Zone
 Access
Administration Tool Eases Maintenance,
Corruption Tracking
December 2002
"Suffice it to say that this remains one of the most essential add-ins on
the market for the serious Access developer." Mike Gunderloy,
Microsoft Online Certified Professional Magazine
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Review Total Access Analyzer
April 2002,
Smart Access eXTRA, Issue 3.4 |
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Review Total Access Analyzer
April 2002,
Microsoft Online Certified Professional Magazine |
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Review Total Access Analyzer
January 2002,
Database Journal |
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FMS Total Access Analyzer
November 2001,
Smart Access, pp. 13-14,22. |
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FMS Ships Total Access Analyzer
October 2000,
MS Office and VBA Developer, pp. 8. |
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Total Access
Analyzer
August 1998, EPCUG.TXT, pp. 5,9. |
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Total Access
Analyzer: Database Analysis You Can Trust
January 1998, MS Office and VBA Developer, pp.
73-75. |
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Access Databases Revealed!
January 1998, Access/VB Advisor, pp. 20-23. |
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Documentation and Total Access Analyzer
November 1997, Smart Access, pp. 13-17. |
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Takes Care of Drudge Work
September 8, 1997, PCWeek. |
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Documenting Microsoft Access Databases
March 25, 1997, PC Magazine, pp.382-383. |
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Total Access Analyzer: Access Add-in Assists in Documentation and
Analysis
January 17, 1997, Visual Programming++. |
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Total Access Analyzer Straightens Out Access Apps
July 1995, DataBased Advisor, pp. 74-80. |
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Total Access Analyzer Gets to App's Nitty-Gritty
April 24, 1995, PC Week, page 85. |
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Get a Handle on Your Microsoft Access Applications
Feb/Mar 1995,
Access Advisor, pp. 66-67. |
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Total Access 1.0: Missing Utility
Aug/Sep 1993, Access Advisor, pp.
26-27. |
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Total Documentation of Access Databases
September 1993, Smart Access, pp. 10-12. |
"Total Access Components 2000 is a quick and inexpensive solution to
many UI problems that can plague an Access project." - Thomas Wagner, MS
Office Pro
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Total Access Components
May 2001, Take Control of Your Access Projects. |
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Denver Access Users Group |
Total Access
Components
July 1998, Denver Area Access Users Group
Newsletter. |
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Create Custom Buttons, Toolbars, and Tabs
November 1997,
Access Advisor, pp. 22-25. |
"This awesome development tool lets you track differences between
database versions" - Thomas Wagner, Access/VB
Advisor
"Email jobs are saved so they can be edited and reused. You
also get statistics and reporting after a blast has gone out. There's
even a programmatic interface in case you'd like to add emailing
capabilities to your own Access applications. All in all, a nice piece
of work." - Mike Gunderloy, Developer Central 32
"Total Access Speller is ideal for both users and developers...Total
Access Speller is a solid product. If you need spell checking in your
applications, you should get Total Access Speller." - Paul Litwin, Smart
Access
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Hand On Total Access Speller
August 2002, Microsoft Office Solutions Magazine,
page 37-38. |
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Total Access Speller
August 2002, Advisor Magazine, page 38. |
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Total Access Speller
March 2002, Smart Access |
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Total Access Speller
January 2002, Smart Access eXTRA, Issue 3.1. |
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Spell Check Your Access Data
May 1995, Access/VB Advisor, pp. 90-91. |
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Spell-Checking for Microsoft Access
March 28, 1995, PC Magazine, page 314. |
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Total Access Speller
December 1994, Smart Access, pp. 14-16. |
"With an intuitive, easy-to-use Wizard interface and the Access Basic (or
VBA) interface, Total Access Statistics makes it easy for users or
programmers to perform statistical analysis. It generates the analysis you
need with output in a useful format: tables. If you need to perform advanced
numerical analysis, consider Total Access Statistics." - Pam Hazelrigg,
Access/VB Advisor
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Review Total Access Statistics
February 2002,
Microsoft Online Certified Professional Magazine |
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Analyze Your Data with FMS Total
Access Statistics
May 2001, Access/VB/SQL Advisor, pp. 43. |
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Statistics That Don't Lie
July 1997, Access/VB Advisor, pp. 10-11. |
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Total Access
Statistics
March 1996, Access/VB Advisor, pp. 64-69. |
"Total Access Startup eases Access deployment. Use the tool to
launch a database with the appropriate version of Access every time." -
Advisor Zone
"The Total Access Developer Suite is aimed at making the life of any
Access developer a breeze..." -
WinPlanet Review
4½ out of five stars! |
Total Access Developer Suite
April 1999, WinPlanet Online Review. |
"It's not very often that one runs into a product that is useful to so
many members of an IS team. A network administrator can use it, because
data backup is typically something assigned to this person; a corporate
developer or DBA can use it to maintain Jet databases in their optimal
state; and a consultant can use its e-mail notification capabilities. It's
so easy to run that, in a pinch, even a power user can use it. Total
Visual Agent is a real find, a rare combination of ease of use, and "bang
for the buck." In the end, no other competitor even comes close!"-Thomas
Wagner, MS Office and VBA Developer
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Review Total Visual Agent
January 2002,
Microsoft Online Certified Professional Magazine |
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Database Maintenance Relief
January 2001, Access/VB Advisor, pp. 10. |
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Total Visual Agent FMS' Database
Maintenance Tool
May 2000, MS Office & VBA Developer, pp. 58-59. |
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Total Access Agent Is Better than Backup
March 1997, Access/VB Advisor, pp. 12-14. |
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A Couple of Gems from FMS: TA Agent and TA
CodeTools
September 1996, Smart Access, pp. 6-9. |
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Total Access Agent
July 1996, Visual Programming++. |
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Tool for Database Upkeep is Administrator's Dream
April 15, 1996, PC Week, page 75. |
"Total Visual CodeTools, produced by FMS, Inc., is by far my favorite
third-party product"
- Alison Balter,
Mastering Office Access, page 1203
"I was certainly surprised how much the product had changed over the
years. You can still "scramble" a project and obfuscate the code, but today
CodeTools is much richer." - Thomas
Wagner of MS Office Deployment and Development
"Finally! Someone has come up with a tool that actually helps you write
code for your Access applications!" -
Craig Bobchin, Access/VB Advisor
"Total Visual SourceBook can give you an edge when it comes to that
specific time frame. It allows you to be more productive in the same
amount of time, therefore more profitable. How can it do that? SourceBook
consists of thousands of lines of VB/VBA code - tested and debugged -
ready to use in your project. Just plug it in and watch it go. You may not
need all the code that ships with SourceBook right away, but the time you
save when you do need it will recoup the costs for the product in short
order." - Thomas Wagner of MS Office
Deployment and Development
"A programmers dream!...all code in the SourceBook is completely
reusable, with royalty-free distribution rights. And its perfectly commented
too - just the right information for beginners and advanced developers
alike...Smart, innovative and easy-to-use - this product is full of
real-world solutions that you can't find anywhere else...an invaluable
addition to anyone's development toolkit. A must-have!" -
WinPlanet Review
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Total VB SourceBook
Sept/Oct 1999, Visual Developer, page
40. |
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VB SourceBook
Buyers Guide, Spring 1999 , VBPJ, page 68. |
4½ out of five stars! |
VB SourceBook
January 1999, WinPlanet Online Review. |
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Borrow Code from the Library
November 1998, VBPJ, page 15. |
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Total VB SourceBook 5.0.1 for
Microsoft Visual Basic
August 14, 1998, Visual Programming++. |
"If only all software was this well-written, well-documented, and
provided this much value" - Diane Winger,
Access/VB Advisor
"Every time I look at the package with the little blue-and-green tag
reading "What's your time worth?" I think about the thousands of lines of
ready-to-use code that come with it. I must say that on more than one
occasion Total Visual SourceBook has made the difference between a
marginally profitable project and a soundly profitable one. I cannot
imagine any VB programmer who could live without this excellent tool." -
Thomas Wagner of MS Office Deployment and Development
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Total Visual Developer Suite
March 2001 |
Total SQL Analyzer Gets 5 Stars
"Total SQL Analyzer is a unique tool with a great price...Building on
15 years of experience, FMS continues to deliver outstanding
bang-for-the-buck development tools. I highly recommend this product." -
Thomas Wagner, asp.netPRO Magazine
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Database
Developers Group |
Total SQL
Analyzer PRO
May, 2002, Database Developers Group |
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Tremendous Bang for the Buck
May, 2002, asp.netPRO Magazine |
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Document SQL Server Databases
March, 2002, Visual Studio Magazine |
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Total SQL Analyzer
December, 2001, SQL Server Central.com |
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Performance Check
November, 2001, DNJ |
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Total SQL Analyzer
October 10, 2001, SQL Server Central.com |
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Total SQL Analyzer
July 31, 2001, AngryCoder.com |
"Total SQL Statistics can help your VB application deliver data quickly
from your database to your consumers without having to re-enter or transform
it." - John Pearson, Visual Studio Magazine
"...It's a great way to pick up some of the best practices in .NET
coding" - Rick Wayne, Software Development
"FMS has a long track record of delivering excellent value to Microsoft
Access and VB developers. It looks like they'll be keeping this up with .NET
developers." -
Mike Gunderloy, MCPmag.com
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Total .NET Analyzer
December, 2003, Visual Studio.NET |
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Analyze Your Code
August, 2003, Visual Studio Magazine, page 11. |
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ZDNet
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Improve Code Confidence
May, 2003, ZDNet.com.au |
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Code Critic
December, 2002,
Software Development, page 20. |
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Analyzer That
November, 2002,
MCP, Mag.com |
"The mother of all Visual Studio code libraries...they're going
beyond code, the first round of downloads included some hints for working
effectively with VS .NET and a white paper on macros." -
Mike Gunderloy, MCPmag.com
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Total .NET SourceBook
July, 2003,
DevCity.NET |
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Leverage a Coding Cheat Sheet
July, 2003,
Visual Studio Magazine |
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The Mother of all Visual Studio
Code Libraries
January, 2003,
MCP, Mag.com |
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One Place for Everything
December, 2002,
MCP, Mag.com |
"The end result is a tool that you can just use, as if it had been built
in all along. And after a while you'll wonder how you did without it." -
Mike Gunderloy, MCPmag.com
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Understand Your Variables
November, 2003,
Visual Studio Magazine. |
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Total .NET XRef
October, 2002,
Visual Studio Magazine,
page 19. |
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Total .NET XRef
August,
2002,
Advisor Magazine,
page 38. |
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Total .NET XRef
May 1,
2002,
MCP Mag.com |
"The Total .NET Developer Suite looks and feels very much like it is OEM
and not a third-party add-in." -
Sanders Kaufman, Builder.com
"If you are looking for a small but powerful statistical calculation
engine, Total VB Statistics can help. It is flexible and easy to use, and
best of all, it writes the code for you." -
VBPJ Review
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