Dear All,
Apologies if this is a duplicate posting
We are using A97 and it does what we want it to.
Is there any compelling reason to upgrade to the latest version?
If we do, it would probably also involve upgrading all of
MSOffice at the same time, i.e. Word + Excel + Powerpoint
Any advice would be appreciated.
John Fox 11 1334
John E. Fox wrote: Dear All,
Apologies if this is a duplicate posting
We are using A97 and it does what we want it to. Is there any compelling reason to upgrade to the latest version? If we do, it would probably also involve upgrading all of MSOffice at the same time, i.e. Word + Excel + Powerpoint
Any advice would be appreciated.
John Fox
I keep using whatever version of Access comes with the new machines.
If Office 12 (2K6?) has enough going for it I might recommend top to
bottom replacement (about 70 users at each location). It would be nice
not to be locked into older features that must run on A97 all the way
through A12. After that, A2K6 would have to be the lowest common
denominator until at least 2010 or until I replace Access with
something else, whichever comes first. I never intended for Access to
be the main development platform at this point but management likes its
flexibility and its ability to get new concepts out on the floor
quickly. Access is so well liked that if I recommend something else it
had better be good. I'd like to go the intranet route but I can't find
another way to come even close to the RAD capabilities of Access so
I'll be looking closely at A12's suitability for that purpose.
James A. Fortune
John,
I'd vote for staying put - "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Best regards,
J. Paul Schmidt, Freelance Web and Database Developer http://www.Bullschmidt.com
Access Database Sample, Web Database Sample, ASP Design Tips Apologies if this is a duplicate posting
We are using A97 and it does what we want it to. Is there any compelling reason to upgrade to the >latest version? If we do, it would probably also involve upgrading all of MSOffice at the same time, i.e. Word + Excel + >Powerpoint
Any advice would be appreciated.
John Fox
John E. Fox wrote: Dear All,
Apologies if this is a duplicate posting
We are using A97 and it does what we want it to.
You just answered your own question:)
Is there any compelling reason to upgrade to the latest version? If we do, it would probably also involve upgrading all of MSOffice at the same time, i.e. Word + Excel + Powerpoint
Any advice would be appreciated.
John Fox
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"John E. Fox" <al******@bham. ac.uk> wrote in
news:sR******** **********@news fe2-win.ntli.net: We are using A97 and it does what we want it to. Is there any compelling reason to upgrade to the latest version? If we do, it would probably also involve upgrading all of MSOffice at the same time, i.e. Word + Excel + Powerpoint
I have plenty of clients running Office 2000, Office XP and Office
2003 who still have their database application in Access 97. If
there is no reason to upgrade, don't upgrade.
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David W. Fenton wrote: "John E. Fox" <al******@bham. ac.uk> wrote in news:sR******** **********@news fe2-win.ntli.net:
We are using A97 and it does what we want it to. Is there any compelling reason to upgrade to the latest version? If we do, it would probably also involve upgrading all of MSOffice at the same time, i.e. Word + Excel + Powerpoint
I have plenty of clients running Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 who still have their database application in Access 97. If there is no reason to upgrade, don't upgrade.
I encountered a performance issue using an A97 backend with a A2000
frontend. From memory it can be fixed by changing a table setting you
can't get to in A97 except via code?
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Bradley
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"Br@dley" <br**@usenet.or g> wrote in
news:Ec******** **********@news-server.bigpond. net.au: David W. Fenton wrote: "John E. Fox" <al******@bham. ac.uk> wrote in news:sR******** **********@news fe2-win.ntli.net:
We are using A97 and it does what we want it to. Is there any compelling reason to upgrade to the latest version? If we do, it would probably also involve upgrading all of MSOffice at the same time, i.e. Word + Excel + Powerpoint
I have plenty of clients running Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 who still have their database application in Access 97. If there is no reason to upgrade, don't upgrade.
I encountered a performance issue using an A97 backend with a A2000 frontend. From memory it can be fixed by changing a table setting you can't get to in A97 except via code?
I don't know. I've only done that once, and there was no performance
issue at all.
What I meant was that my clients keep the old Access and upgrade
Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint to the latest version.
Sounds like what you're describing is the Subdatasheet property,
which I believe is irrelevant when the front end is connected to a
Jet 3.5 back end. But I could be wrong on that, since it's something
I haven't actually encountered (i.e., when my client was running
against an A97 back end, there were no performance issues; we saw no
improvement when they upgraded the back end to A2K).
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On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:47:36 GMT, "John E. Fox" <al******@bham. ac.uk> wrote: Dear All,
Apologies if this is a duplicate posting
We are using A97 and it does what we want it to. Is there any compelling reason to upgrade to the latest version? If we do, it would probably also involve upgrading all of MSOffice at the same time, i.e. Word + Excel + Powerpoint
Any advice would be appreciated.
John Fox
The only reaon to upgrade would be if you need support form Microsoft since
A97 support has been discontinued. There are some new VBA features I like
enough to choose Access 2002 or 2003 for new projects, but I wouldn't
generally upgrade an existing project unless it needed a complete overhaul.
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:47:36 GMT, "John E. Fox" <al******@bham. ac.uk> wrote: Dear All,
Apologies if this is a duplicate posting
We are using A97 and it does what we want it to. Is there any compelling reason to upgrade to the latest version? If we do, it would probably also involve upgrading all of MSOffice at the same time, i.e. Word + Excel + Powerpoint
Any advice would be appreciated.
John Fox
One feature of later versions is that they store text in Unicode, though it
would be too strong to say that they fully support it. Also if you use Access
as a front end to a database you also want to use as a backend on the web,
some ISPs won't support jet 3.5 databases. However evidently you aren't
needing these things.
polite person wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:47:36 GMT, "John E. Fox" <al******@bham. ac.uk> wrote:
One feature of later versions is that they store text in Unicode, though it would be too strong to say that they fully support it. Also if you use Access as a front end to a database you also want to use as a backend on the web, some ISPs won't support jet 3.5 databases. However evidently you aren't needing these things.
Provider=Micros oft.Jet.OLEDB.4 .0
I use this for both AC97 (jet 3.5) and AC2k MDB files via ASP. Works
fine. The 4.0 driver is downwardly compatible with 3.5 (and maybe even
earlier version, but I've never tried it).
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