Re: Access should be made to run on a Wide Area Network



On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:21:02 -0800, "SS Analyst" <SS
Analyst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I work for a company that employs about 15000 people. Hurricaine Katrina
>destroyed our LAN and we were forced to move everything to another state.
>Our network now operates on a WAN. My Access databases run extremely slow,
>the ones with a large number of records in the tables are impossible to run
>and it is very frustrating.

Good idea - but it won't happen soon.

Two suggestions:

- Use MSDE or SQL Express to migrate your data to a SQL server (with
appropriate modifications to your applications, if necessary) and link
to that rather than to a JET backend

- Use Terminal Server or Citrix as a "thin client" to connect over the
WAN

John W. Vinson[MVP]
.



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