[AccessD] Disconnected MS Access cient applications..

William Hindman dejpolsys at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 18 07:10:14 CDT 2005


..thanks Shamil ...you work in another world ...and I don't mean Russia :)

..SQL Server is about as far afield as I ever get ...and unbound forms in 
Access, with few exceptions, are a curse upon mankind ...imnsho :)

William

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at users.mns.ru>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Disconnected MS Access cient applications..


> No, William, this is not replication - here is what I mean in short:
>
> http://www.smsconsulting.spb.ru/shamil_s/articles/ddo.htm
>
> Shamil
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "William Hindman" <dejpolsys at hotmail.com>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 3:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Disconnected MS Access cient applications..
>
>
>> Shamil
>>
>> ..I must be missing something ...that sounds like replication to me.
>>
>> William
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at users.mns.ru>
>> To: "!DBA-MAIN" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:28 PM
>> Subject: [AccessD] Disconnected MS Access cient applications..
>>
>>
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I wanted to ask you - what about the subject?
>> > Anybody uses/interested to use MS Access client applications this way?
>> >
>> > Do I miss obvious (RTFM) stuff and such a disconnected mode is already
>> > implemented in MS Access and broadly used by MS Access developers? Yes,
> I
>> > know ADO recordsets can be used with bound MS Access forms etc. but 
>> > this
>> > looks like a rather limited feature - am I wrong?
>> >
>> > What I mean is cashing data locally into mdbs, only the data needed for
>> > the
>> > currently open form(s) etc., processing this data and then updating
>> > backend
>> > database(mdb, MSDE, MS SQL, whatever...) - with all this cashing and
>> > updating made mostly automatically by a tiny framework code, based on
>> > ADO.NET...(yes, this local caching of data is not a new subject but
>> > nowadays
>> > it can be (re-)implement really scalable way with a way less efforts
> than
>> > before)
>> >
>> > Maybe MS plans to do something like that?
>> >
>> > Is that a wheel reinvention or anybody here sees such opportunity like 
>> > a
>> > really useful feature in their real life projects?
>> >
>> > For me it looks like a useful feature because it could help: to get MS
>> > Access back into mainstream development area because it will allow to
>> > easily
>> > scale applications with MS Access front-ends...
>> >
>> > There are many other ideas but most of them in this "ideas pool" based
> on
>> > the subject one - if it doesn't make sense for real-life projects then
> I'd
>> > better stop working on it...
>> >
>> > What is your opinion about the subject?
>> > When you expect MS will do something like that in MS Access?
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > Shamil
>> >
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