[AccessD] MDB vs SQL ODBC

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Fri Oct 3 01:25:23 CDT 2003


On 3 Oct 2003 at 7:23, Liam Meadows wrote:

> Hi All
> Just a quick Question, Am I right in thinking that if you use an Access
> MDB with FE/BE over a network the Front End has to pull the Back End
> over to the local machine then action it ?
> If so does an SQL Server ODBC Back End Behave in the same way ?
> 

It behaves the same way if you just link the tables and manipulate the 
data in your front end using standard queries, recordsets etc

The big advantage of SQL Server is that you can use Views and Stored 
Procedures. In that case, the work is done by the BE and all that gets 
sent over the network is the result set


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Stuart McLachlan
Lexacorp Ltd
Application Development,  IT Consultancy
http://www.lexacorp.com.pg



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