[AccessD] Question: How often do you run your remote table relinking code?

[Bill Benson]

No answer to this. However *if* someone were doing this just to make sure
the tables are validly connected:

Would using VBA to test the table statuses by running a series of well
chosen select statements be faster than automatically re-linking all BE
tables?

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 2:31 PM Ryan W <wrwehler at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd been in the habit of running the relinking code right after the ODBC
> connection was established, it usually takes 8-10 seconds to delete the
> tabledefs and recreate them.
>
> I recently came across this old article
>
> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2011/04/08/power-tip-improve-the-security-of-database-connections/
>
> In this article the author states the initial connection credentials are
> cached, and as long as your connection string on linked tables and
> passthrough queries match the 3 required criteria (database, server, and
> driver) you don't need to worry about storing UID and PWDs in the string
> (which I'm using mSysConf to negate anyway).
>
> So now I'm only running re-linking code when I add new tables/views to the
> FE during development.  This has made startup times a lot nicer.
>
> So my question to you all is: When do you relink remote tables? Always?
> Seldom? Never?
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