Re: Indirect Sync A97 - Replication Manager

"Tom Stoddard" <tomshome@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:ubdAgczDGHA.2292@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> This has been a long tedious process. It's not easy figuring this
> out because you have to have two separate computers set up and
> running just in order to test it. The most frustrating aspect is
> the almost complete lack of documentation on the subject. There's
> plenty of high level explanation about replicaton but very little
> documentation on the details behind the scenes. It's very
> disappointing to me that Microsoft hasn't done a better job than
> they have with the documentation of indirect replicaton and the
> jet synchronizer. I want to thank Michael Kaplan for making his
> TSI objects available. Without them I would never have figured out
> as much as I did. If Microsoft really wanted to make replicaton
> more available to Access developers they would have included all
> of the methods that the TSI objects contain in JRO. There's no
> reason why the couldn't have. They obviously don't want to make it
> easy for us. I can only assume they do this for financial gain. I
> guess they haven't gotten enough of our money yet.

They do it because they don't want people to use Jet -- they want
them to buy SQL Server licenses.

And Jet replication in Access is basically dead in terms of future
development. Access 12 will support all legacy Jet functionality,
but will not add new functionality. And the new method for sharing
data with Access will require a Sharepoint server.

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