[AccessD] Access 97 backend database with Access 2007 frontend

Paul Hartland paul.hartland at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 6 08:05:04 CDT 2012


Stuart,

Thanks for the reply, first thing I was going to do was look at the
indexing and primary keys etc, good to know that the backend frontend
shouldn't be a problem though, they did mention that their network guys are
pretty strict on access etc, so that's another thing I will be looking at.

Paul

On 6 July 2012 14:00, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote:

> I've got one site where all the BEs are still 97 and have not experienced
> any issues, speed or
> otherwise using FE in all more recent versions of Access.  Some of them
> being regularly hit
> by 20-30 users.
>
> First thing I'd look at is indexing, with that few records, lots of
> indexes including multi-field
> ones should not be a problem.
>
> --
> Stuart
>
> On 6 Jul 2012 at 13:46, Paul Hartland wrote:
>
> > To all,
> >
> > I am leaving my current company soon to start with another company, at
> the
> > interview they gave me a demonstration of their current database, they
> > estimated in total there were probably less than 10,000 records on the
> > whole database.  They acknowledged (which was obvious anyway) that the
> > database is slow, now without getting to look at the underlying
> > tables/queries etc before I start, I was wondering if there are any
> common
> > issues with speed that other users on here may of come across.  The
> backend
> > database is in access 97 and the frontend in Access 2007, are there any
> > common problems with this ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help or pointers on this.
> >
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