[AccessD] Re: Hiding Back End Design

Jim,

I would have to disagree.  In a well designed application, the database 
design will dictate how the GUI works not the other way.  I would find it 
more difficult to reverse engineer a poorly designed database to replicate 
an application.

Robert

At 12:15 AM 22/06/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:21:23 -0400
>From: "Jim Dettman" <jimdettman at earthlink.net>
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] Hiding Back End Design
>To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
>         <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
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>Rocky,
>
><<I've heard tell that there are cheap Access password crackers available.
>To
>someone in China who wanted in, would it be very difficult?>>
>
>   No.
>
>   With Access, the best you can do is protect the source code by supplying a
>MDE file.  Outside of that, it's all easily breakable.
>
>   And I would disagree that the table design is 80% of the app.  Probably
>the other way around.
>
>Jim Dettman
>(315) 699-3443
>jimdettman at earthlink.net