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 >> > >> > -- >> > AccessD mailing list >> > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >