[AccessD] Access and SQL Server

As soon as you say "use macros, not vba" I stop listening.

Just me of course.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 2/28/2011 1:57 PM, Rusty Hammond wrote:
> Reading your decriptions of what you are doing, sounds like a good fit
> for the new Access Sharepoint services.  I'm curious if anyone on the
> list has used the service.
>
>> From what I understand, with Access 2010 and the Access Sharepoint
> service, you can create your app in Access, then post it to Sharepoint
> and your forms, reports, queries, etc... Are converted to Sharepoint
> pages.  One caveat seems to be that you have to use Access Macro's and
> not any vba for it to work.  Anyone have any experience with this yet?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 11:47 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access and SQL Server
>
>   >  Are any of your developing full blown ACCESS/SQL Server applications
> for clients?
>
> I am just beginning to do this.  I have three applications that need to
> access data from the internet.
>
> Real (old) men use SQL Server and HTML, written in notepad.  I am not a
> real man.  Though I am old!  ;)
>
> Real young men use SQL Server and C#.  I aspire to be young (again).
> Physiologically, that ain't happening.  I am learning a ton of C# and
> SQL server stuff but I am not yet to the point of doing full on database
> applications in C#.
>
> Given the above, while I aspire to C# there is a lot to learn before I
> am going to write an app in C# which I have to maintain (and write
> reports for).  Someday but not this month.
>
> This month I hope to actually place in production two Access
> applications, both running under a runtime environment, which Access a
> SQL Server database over the web.
>
>   >If so what type of an app is it?
>
> One app is a time sheet / reporting application for a non-profit.  This
> organization has a handful of part time employees who meet with parents
> of children with disabilities.  The purpose is to provide information
> about resources available to the parents.
>
> So individuals go to people's homes, discuss their child's disabilities
> and provide the parents referrals to organizations which can actually
> assist the parent in dealing with the disabilities.
>
> These employees need to document every visit.  They have to enter very
> basic name/address info for the parents, and then enter some records
> child to that parent info with referrals, literature etc.
> These employees will enter their time sheets from their homes or a local
> wi-fi hot-spot from their laptop.
>
> Management of this non-profit will then run reports about what work was
> done by the organization.
> The organization has to report to the money guys (grants) and to the IRS
> IIRC.
>
>   >If so what type of an app is it?
>
> The next application I am developing is a volunteer database for the
> local prison.  They do various training programs and need to maintain a
> list of volunteers, a list of projects, which volunteers are working on
> which projects, and the date/times of the project meetings.  Stuff like
> that.  They will have a couple of people actively maintaining the
> database - adding / deleting / updating records.  There will be a
> handful of people just looking at reports.
>
> The people using the database will access it from their home computer or
> laptop from a wi-fi hot-spot..
>
>   >If so what type of an app is it?
>
> And finally (for now) I go into the prison for various reasons.  Some
> volunteers may check certain inmates out.  In order to do so I have to
> fill out a specific piece of paper for each inmate I am checking out,
> every time I want to check that inmate out.  The paper lists my name /
> address, the prisoner's ID number, and a list of exact places and start
> / stop  date / times where I will be taking the prisoner.  I can take
> them to church, or to an AA meeting, or a restaurant etc.  There is
> space on the form for three locations / dates / times.
>
> So the next application allows me to maintain a list of inmates that I
> might routinely check out, a list of locations (addresses) and allow me
> to fill out this paperwork with a few mouse clicks and then turn that
> into a PDF and fax it off to the prison.
>
> ATM it will be only me using it, but if it is actually faster than
> manually filling in the paper and faxing it, then other volunteers who
> check out prisoners may want to use it.
>
>
> So there you have my three ACTIVE Access / SQL Server projects.  Each of
> these is being designed
> from scratch to:
>
> 1) Use SQL Server for the data store.
> 2) Use Hamachi VPN to get at the SQL Server
> 3) Use a runtime
>
> And because of the first two above, to be usable over the internet.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> On 2/28/2011 7:56 AM, Tony Septav wrote:
>> Hey All
>> Thanks
>> I have got to try out Stuart suggestion for updating stored procedures
> in SQL Server using ACCESS.
>> I am not finding any significant differences in speed when using
> ACCESS tables and queries versus
>> SQL Server tables and pass through queries, I assume that is because I
> am doing my testing on my
>> local machine and not on a network (or Web).
>>
>> Are any of your developing full blown ACCESS/SQL Server applications
> for clients? If so what type of
>> an app is it?