[AccessD] AXP mde fe / be to fe / MSDE

Arthurs point is a valid one but At some future point in the distant future 
the ability to work with SQL Server outside the world of ADPs may help you.

I am sorry thats all I can say. 

Martin



Quoting "John W. Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>:

> One of the advantages is that everything you had originally still works.
>  I
> am using something similar while I migrate another FE to an ADP.
> 
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 8:21 AM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] AXP mde fe / be to fe / MSDE
> 
> 
> I don't see the point of this approach. In fact I think it would
> complicate
> your problem rather than simplifying it, since you'd get all the
> problems
> and none of the benefits. Instead I suggest:
> 
> A) make a copy of both the FE and BE.
> B) import the BE into the copied FE.
> C) find all record and row sources that begin with the word SELECT and
> change them to saved queries.
> D) run the upsizing wizard on this new combined FE-BE. You will end up
> with
> an MSDE database and an ADP FE that directly points to the database
> rather
> than going through ODBC.
> 
> Now you can enjoy the benefits: speed, direct access to stored
> procedures,
> UDFs and views.
> 
> HTH,
> Arthur 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Eric Goetz
> Sent: March 6, 2003 8:26 PM
> To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: [AccessD] AXP mde fe / be to fe / MSDE
> 
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I'm looking to get my feet wet in MS SQL Server.
>  
> I've got an Access XP mde fe/be using A2K file format that is used for
> sales
> reports. There are three users; one all the time, the others
> occasionally.
> There is talk of creating a web front end for the 45 remote sales
> people.
> This seemed to me to be a potential project for getting some experience
> with
> the MSDE. That would leave me ready to move to SQL Server.
>  
> To get a simple start, I thought I would just replace the back end with
> MSDE
> and link with ODBE. How does this work out in practice - especially from
> a
> deployment and development standpoint? Has anyone tried this? If I got
> this
> going, I thought I could try some pass through queries. Is this a good
> way
> to start with SQL Server?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Eric
>  
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