[AccessD] Access 2K subforms bound to SQL Server.

David McAfee davidmcafee at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 11:57:21 CST 2012


Move them over to an A2K ADP. It should be fairly simple.


On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:48 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:

> My client is moving to SQL Server at my persistent prodding.  They have
> outgrown Access database containers, we have had to split their original
> single Access BE many times and now have about 6 different BEs with as much
> as 800 megs of data in some of them (after compact / repair).  "Another
> user has locked this record" kinds of issues.  All that stuff.
>
> So we are slooooowly moving the database to SQL Server.
>
> The problem is that they remain firmly mired in Access 2000.  Yep.  Sigh.
>
> The biggest issue with Access 2K from the perspective of SQL Server is
> that forms cannot be bound to recordsets and still be editable.
>
> So I am searching for a way to emulate what has always mostly worked, yet
> at least maintain the current speed (not great) or speed things up.
>
> I have been using SQl Server with Office 2003 for a long time and it works
> very well but I don't have that here.  I am considering trying to use
> Access 2007 runtime, which I am using in other places and seems to work
> quite well.  The biggest problem with doing that for this client is simply
> that the application is *very* complex and I program "to the metal".  When
> something doesn't work in runtime, it is extremely difficult to
> troubleshoot.
>
> So I am looking for thoughts on my predicament, and how you may have
> handled a similar situation.
>
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