Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Mar 31 16:14:45 CDT 2011
Hi Drew: I have never had any bad experiences from an Access BE web site but according to one of the trainers from Wintellect, a Microsoft bases training company, from which I took a week of lecture course, a few years ago, at Redmond; he said the an Access BE was very dangerous because it was prone to insertion attacked. He said he could hack any Access BE in 5 minutes. Whether that was true or not I have no idea but I have never used an Access BE, for a web site, since. On a pinch I have used MySQL and now MS SQL Express when no major SQL DB BE is available. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 11:37 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using ADO and Windows 7 SP1? Be careful! Actually, when it comes to a web interfaced app, using an .mdb for a backend is just fine. There are only a few times where I would actually recommend a SQL Server Backend: Size limitation. Needs to have another non-web based front end. Needs triggers. Other than that, an .mdb is just fine. Uses less over head, can run just as fast, if not faster, etc. Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 11:30 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using ADO and Windows 7 SP1? Be careful! Just put a nice "real" SQL BE and now you are talking turkey. ;-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:43 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using ADO and Windows 7 SP1? Be careful! I'm willing to bet that 95% of the things I wrote using ADO will work just fine...... Web Front End.... ;) Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:59 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] Using ADO and Windows 7 SP1? Be careful! I had a call from a client this morning. Some code that I had written using ADO to write records to a back end, code which has been working for 2 or 3 years, was crashing with a message indicating that ADO wasn't working. Unfortunately, it was a bit of a panic situation and I didn't get a screen dump of the message. I putzed around with the references and re-compiling, and got it to work. Turns out that this is probably an example of a known problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2517589 There is also a discussion (well, a bunch of bitching) about this in the LinkedIn Access Developers group. If I understand it correctly, an Access database using ADO which is compiled on a computer running Windows 7 SP1 will NOT run properly on any other version of Windows. I`m running Win7 SP1 and my client is Win7, so I guess this was the problem. I wonder if I can send an invoice for my debugging time to Microsoft... Doug -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com The information contained in this transmission is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain II-VI Proprietary and/or II-VI Business Sensitive material. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. You are notified that any review, retransmission, copying, disclosure, dissemination, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. -- 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 The information contained in this transmission is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain II-VI Proprietary and/or II-VI Business Sensitive material. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. You are notified that any review, retransmission, copying, disclosure, dissemination, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com