
MS Access As A Dev Tool
Access continues to be a highly efficient tool for business database development.
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Your Options When Using Access as a Front End
Client/server applications are not an all-or-none proposition; there is more than one way to implement them through Access. One option is to use Access as a true front end, which means that you store all data on the server and process all queries on the server. You do this by using pass-through queries and stored procedures, rather than stored Access queries. With pass-through queries, you pass a back-end–specific SQL statement to the back end instead of allowing Access to process it. When you use stored procedures, you store SQL statements on the back end and then execute them using Data Access Objects (DAO) or ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) code. (I cover this scenario briefly in Chapter 22 and in detail in Alison Balter’s Mastering Access 2002 Enterprise Development.)To make Access a true front end, you must also disable its natural ability to bind data to forms and reports. Doing so, however, eliminates all the features that make Access a strong product in the first place. Unfortunately, you haven't eliminated all the overhead associated with the functionality you removed. If you want to use unbound forms for most or all of your application, you’re better off developing the entire application in a lower-overhead environment, such as Visual Studio .NET.
Another approach is a hybrid method in which you use a combination of linked tables, SQL pass-through queries, stored procedures, unbound forms, and local Access tables. The idea is that you take advantage of Access's features and strong points whenever possible. You use pass-through queries and stored procedures to perform functions that you can accomplish more efficiently by communicating directly to the back end or that aren't available at all with Access SQL. To further improve performance, you can perform many tasks locally and then communicate them to the server as one transaction, after you have completed any initial validation. In addition to the solutions just discussed, you can also download data to Access in bulk so that you can perform additional processing locally. Many possibilities exist, and each is appropriate in different situations. Experience and experimentation are needed to determine the combination of methods that will optimize performance in a given situation.
This material orginally appeared in Alison Balter's book Mastering Microsoft Office Access 2007 Development. Reprinted here by author's permission.
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