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>you could put a shared MDB file out on a Novell network >share and have 30 concurrent users with no server app at >all, users just doubled clicked the MDB Y
by jjkaczor 7y ago
>you could put a shared MDB file out on a Novell network
>share and have 30 concurrent users with no server app at
>all, users just doubled clicked the MDB
You could be describing myself. However... I beg to differ on it's scalability... There were 'issues' with the 2.0 Jet engine when accessing MDB files on network shares that would often result in 'missing data'. Lots of fun. (Lots of work up-sizing to actual SQL back-ends as well though)
- SigmundA 7y agoOh I didn't say it was without problems, but it did mostly work , mostly... Once I started learning SQL server and VB5 for real client server apps I never looked back, but then you had to go find a reporting engine too.
- encoderer 7y agoCrystal reports. Shudder.
- jjkaczor 7y agoI hated it so bad, I eventually took it off my resume.
- EvanAnderson 7y agoI've seen Access macros to generate reports, called from the command-line, as a "reporting engine". It was a rickety death-trap but it worked...
- orionblastar 7y agoCrystal Reports worked great for me. Even had ActiveX and ASP versions. Only problem was Seagate Software was in Canada and CR was quite buggy. So I got docked in my paycheck for calling Canada. It is SAS now I think. Lotus Approach also did the same as Access.