Re: Is someone hacking into our database?

eagle wrote:
Thank you all so much for your help -- it has been invaluable. I
have one more question, though. When I talked to the other person
who is technically over the databases, she said she talked to a
consultant the agency hired to look at our data systems, and the
consultant said that you never, never want to use Access databases to
store large amounts of data like ours (our backend is only about
90-100 mb in size) because the database goes screwy and begins
deleting its own data.

Bull.

But -- I just wanted to check this out with you. Does
Access go haywire if it gets too big, causing loss of data?

Not that I've ever heard of 90-100 Mb isn't all that large.


Our agency is currently working with a consultant (the one who made
the statement about Access eatings its young) to look over our
systems, servers, etc. and recommend and build (she's also a
programmer, I guess) a system that is "right" for us. I have
reported to my superivisors the security issues of using our access
database for our sensitive client records, and that I'm concerned for
how to keep it secure while this consultant is building a different
system, but that I know of no way to keep it secure (due to the
possibility of password hacking) -- but (one more question) do you
know of a way to keep it secure while waiting on a new system?

Don't give her access to any machine with the real data on it. You should
be able to provide the existing mdb with sample data in it for her to use.

--
Joan Wild
Microsoft Access MVP


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