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

[Bill Benson]

Not sure about something:

When sending a default or new FE to a new user, would you ship the FE with
tables already linked or perform a link on first use of that FE?

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 4:17 PM Gustav Brock via AccessD <
accessd at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:

> Hi Ryan
>
> Never.
> It is only needed if the host or a table schema is changed.
>
> /gustav
>
> Fra: Ryan W<mailto:wrwehler at gmail.com>
> Sendt: 15. februar 2022 20:31
> Til: Access Developers discussion and problem solving<mailto:
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> Emne: [AccessD] Question: How often do you run your remote table relinking
> code?
>
> 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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