[AccessD] Access 2007 to SQL Server 2008 over the internet(Cross Posted)

Charlotte Foust charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 12:16:54 CDT 2013


Armen has some excellent tools, and he really knows what he's talking
about.  I met him in May at the Portland Access Users Group annual
conference.

Charlotte


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Jim Dettman <jimdettman at verizon.net> wrote:

> <<Agreed.  I'd be very wary of running bound forms over the internet.>>
>
>  Actually, one company is running apps as an Access FE with a SQL Server BE
> over the internet and does fairly well with it even with bound forms.
>
>  They have some great tips here (which I believe I've posted in the past).
> See "the best of both worlds" here:
>
> http://www.jstreettech.com/cartgenie/pg_developerDownloads.asp
>
>  But what it boils down to as we have discussed in the past, is that an
> Access based app needs some re-work to do that well.
>
>  But if your talking a Access FE to Azure (SQL Server in the cloud), it
> just
> doesn't work and I know of no one that's doing that.
>
>  I also know of very few that are trying Web Apps in Access 2013.   If you
> think Access 2007/2010 landed with a thud in regards to web stuff, Access
> 2013 seems to have landed with an even bigger thud.  Their just too
> restrictive and offer no upgrade path for existing users.
>
>  Personally I think Microsoft has stepped a little too far ahead of the
> curve this time and shot themselves in the foot.  They've left no migration
> path for existing apps and now from 2007 on up have offered nothing new on
> the desktop side.
>
>  I can see Access morphing into a strictly end user tool, with nothing more
> then being able to do web based forms and CRUD operations.
>
>  Recently an entry appeared on an Access blog suggesting that for an Access
> Web app, *Excel* be used for reporting.  That was troubling indeed.
>
> Jim.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
> McLachlan
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 05:13 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007 to SQL Server 2008 over the
> internet(Cross Posted)
>
> Agreed.  I'd be very wary of running bound forms over the internet.
>
> --
> Stuart
>
> On 13 Aug 2013 at 14:05, Francisco Tapia wrote:
>
> > I haven't worked in Access for some time now, but one thing to keep in
> mind
> > is that Access used to create at least 3 connections for each session,
> > which works well on a quiet, fine tuned network, but over a latency
> > internet connection could be problematic.  If you swap out the default
> > connection objects in Access and unbind each form, and instead create ado
> > connections back to Sql Server, you might be able to combat these latency
> > issues if they should arise.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Francisco <http://twitter.com/seecoolguy>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Jeff B <jeff.developer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > What I was thinking of doing was to run the Access FE from the users
> laptop
> > > or desktop and host the data on a SQL Server.  I also have an ASP
> website
> > > connected to the same data on the SQL Server.
> > >
> > > Worst case, I was hoping to demo the entire project to prospective
> clients;
> > > best case, I was hoping to host the entire project for clients.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
> Foust
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 12:46 PM
> > > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> > > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007 to SQL Server 2008 over the
> > > internet(Cross Posted)
> > >
> > > When you say over the internet, are you talking about cloud services or
> > > something else?
> > >
> > > Charlotte
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Jeff B <jeff.developer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does anyone have experience doing this?  I have a need to test it out
> > > > for reliability and feasibility.
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