[AccessD] Access to SQL Server over Hamachi - it WORKS

 > Wow... so what are you going to do next week?

Access 2007 run-time!

If (when) that works then I finish a basic FE and deliver it to the client for a look see.

 > The truth is that ADO plays nice with them all.

In code.  Binding forms not so much.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 1/16/2011 11:35 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Wow... so what are you going to do next week?
>
> The truth is that ADO plays nice with them all. I have been using ADO-OLE
> since Access97 with no problems what so ever. ;-)
>
> Moving the queries into Stored Procedures is a slow process but MS SQL
> Server Migration Assistant Wizard for Access is supposed to solve all that
> but I have been having some issues making it work with an Access2003 MDB.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; VBA; Sqlserver-Dba
> Subject: [AccessD] Access to SQL Server over Hamachi - it WORKS
>
> Today I stepped back and set it all up internal to my network.
>
> Yesterday I had moved the Fe to my laptop.  Today I deleted all of my linked
> tables, then I relinked
> all of the tables.  In doing so I created a new DSN where I hit the SQL
> Server directly at the
> Hamachi IP address.  Relinked using this new DSN and voila, she's a wurkin,
> and lightning fast over
> my internal network but forcing the traffic through Hamachi.
>
> So I tested a bit, then went back out to the local Arby's where I was pretty
> much unable to do
> anything last night (other than browse the internet).  Got right on the
> connection, opened the
> Access FE and voila, she's a wurkin, and lightning fast.  You wouldn't know
> you weren't directly on
> my LAN.
>
> Access on my laptop over Hamachi, over a public network, in to my network,
> directly into a Virtual
> Machine over Hamachi, running SQL Server 2008 Express.
>
> I am so jazzed!  that leaves me with one technical barrier now, getting an
> Access 2007 run-time to
> host an Access 2003 FE.
>
> Now I need to set up a VM to run on my laptop so that I can have an
> environment without Office
> installed.  Install the Access 2007 run-time and drop the Access 2003 Fe in
> place.  Set up Hamachi
> on that VM and then get it all playing nice.
>
> This will allow me to take my laptop on the road to demo the system.
>
> We shall see.
>
> And yes Jim, I understand I still need to cause SQL Server to do the heavy
> lifting.  To this point I
> have never really used SQL Server as the BE for Access.  My biggest client
> uses Access 2K and it
> doesn't really play nice with ADO.  Since I can now develop these new
> databases in 2003, I can do
> things like bind the form to an ADO recordset and still have it read/write.
> I will need to learn
> how to use a stored procedure were I can pass in a PK and have the SP return
> a table of data already
> selected and sorted.  I.e. SQL Server doing the lifting.
>
> The nice thing is that these are small databases so I can do things like
> leave the list tables just
> linked, at least for awhile while I learn all the stuff I have never had to
> do.
>
> Next up, 2007 run-time.
>