"matt bourke" <bo*****@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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Hi,
Can you please tell me what the advantage is of using an access backend
with a VB frontend OVER access as a frontend and backend.
M
One major advantage is that there is no requirement to have Access installed
on the PC. If you need an application for a number of PC's which have no
requirement for Access apart from this one, and the number of PCs means that
purchasing Access is expensive, you could consider a front end designed with
VB. Creating an Access runtime installation with the Developer's Edition is
another possibility.
There are, however, a number of advantages of using an Access front end.
Because Access is designed specifically for database applications, it does
some things very well and very quickly - designing bound forms / subforms
and complex reports being two examples.
Fletcher
