Re: Running a query on the Back End

From: Alex Dybenko (alex_at_PLEASE.cemi.NO.rssi.SPAM.ru)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 18:29:35 +0300

Hi,
just make an access application, which runs on server and do following
tasks:
every 5 mins (1 hour) it checks to a value in a field "run import" of a
table "settings"
if it=true - is run all your import queries and then set flag back to false

so when some user need to run import - in just set this flag field to true

Also you can build the same on VB, and run it as a service on your server.
then you dont need to have a logged session runnig 

-- 
Alex Dybenko (MVP)
http://Alex.Dybenko.com
http://www.PointLtd.com
"rgrantz" <r_grantz@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:38r1scF5qppiiU1@individual.net...
> Thanks for the reply.  Is there any kind of example you can give me as to
> how to do this?  All I need is for these tables in the Back End to be
> updated from SCO tables which would be linked to that same Back End.  What
> sort of application would I make, and what do you mean by flag?
>
>
> Thanks again
>
>
> "Alex Dybenko" <alex@PLEASE.cemi.NO.rssi.SPAM.ru> wrote in message
> news:%23JDqtdJIFHA.2744@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>> as i understand you - this will not work as you expect. even if BE is
>> located on a server, Jet is still running on a local PC, so in order to
>> connect to SCO tables it need ODBC drives on local PC also
>>
>> solution can be  - is to build a separate application to be run to 
>> server,
>> which will do import, and which will be intiated from any frontent by 
>> some
>> flag in BE table for example
>>
>> HTH
>> -- 
>> Alex Dybenko (MVP)
>> http://Alex.Dybenko.com
>> http://www.PointLtd.com
>>
>>
>>
>> "rgrantz" <rgrantz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:38q12hF5o79rdU1@individual.net...
>> > I've searched the newsgroups about this, and any posts regarding my
>> > particular situation are from 2000 or earlier, so I'm hoping a
> resolution
>> > has come up since then.
>> >
>> > I have a Back End that is used by several users' identical Front Ends.
>> > All Front Ends ONLY use the Back End Access tables.  However, I want to
>> > update and append these Back End tables using linked ProvideX tables
> from
>> > a separate SCO ERP table set.  So, I want to Link the SCO tables to the
>> > Back End, and just activate/run the BackEnd's update/append queries to
>> > append the Access tables in the Back End which the Front Ends use.  I
> have
>> > 2 reasons for doing this:
>> >
>> > - only having to pay for one set of ODBC drivers for the PC/server 
>> > where
>> > the BackEnd resides
>> > - reducing network traffic and Server lag, since the queries on the 
>> > Back
>> > End would fill Access Tables only with usable data, whereas querying 
>> > the
>> > SCO tables per use per FrontEnd user take about 4 minutes for every
>> > Form/Data entry action.  For example, the forms and queries on the 
>> > Front
>> > end never need to see records from before 2003, whereas the SCO tables
>> > themselves have records dating back to 1999.  Using update/append
> queries
>> > and linking FrontEnd forms/queries to the Access Tables rather than the
>> > SCO tables reduces the records/filters from about 600,000 records to
>> > 30,000.
>> >
>> > Is there any way to just run a BackEnd query using a FrontEnd button
> click
>> > event or something?  Again, the query would ONLY update/append the Back
>> > End tables from SCO tables linked to that same Back End.  If anyone
> knows
>> > the code or whatever that's needed, let's assume a sample SCO Linked
> table
>> > is named Order_Status, the Access Back End table to be updated/appended
> is
>> > OrderStatusAcc, and the path to the Back End is
>> > //ServerRoot/C:/BackEnd/AccessBackEnd.mdb.
>> >
>> > Thanks for any help here, it is much appreciated.
>> >
>>
>>
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