Yesterday (while I was out sick), the Access 2000 database I've been refining and further developing for a company suddenly went read-only for a day. Near as I can tell, it's the backend that went read-only. Everyone could get in through their frontends (which are on each workstation computer), but no one could add or change data.
Today it's working fine.
I'm hoping there's some explanation other than it missed its developer... that's a little too scary to contemplate.
Has anyone else experienced this? Any idea why this might happen?
Angi
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Yesterday (while I was out sick), the Access 2000 database I've been refining and further developing for a company suddenly went read-only for a day. Near as I can tell, it's the backend that went read-only. Everyone could get in through their frontends (which are on each workstation computer), but no one could add or change data.
Today it's working fine.
I'm hoping there's some explanation other than it missed its developer... that's a little too scary to contemplate.
Has anyone else experienced this? Any idea why this might happen?
Angi
Angi,
It sounds like a server permissions issue. You need to check with your System Administrator and find out what happens in your absence. Maybe the back end server is not made available until you log-in.
Yesterday (while I was out sick), the Access 2000 database I've been refining and further developing for a company suddenly went read-only for a day. Near as I can tell, it's the backend that went read-only. Everyone could get in through their frontends (which are on each workstation computer), but no one could add or change data.
Today it's working fine.
I'm hoping there's some explanation other than it missed its developer... that's a little too scary to contemplate.
Has anyone else experienced this? Any idea why this might happen?
Angi
To be honest with you, Angi, I have never experienced anything like this before. It does not appear to be Database related, perhaps the Network Administrator doing some work on the File Server where the Back End resides?
Or maybe, with you gone for the day, everyone spent the day playing Solitare, updating their profiles on eHarmony and just spun you this fairy tale to cover themselves!
Linq ;0)>
Or maybe, with you gone for the day, everyone spent the day playing Solitare, updating their profiles on eHarmony and just spun you this fairy tale to cover themselves!
Linq ;0)>
Yours is the more likely scenario, linq. (LOL).
Thanks... all plausible answers!
It can't have to do with whether I'm logged in or not, because on a daily basis people are using this database before I get in in the morning. What's more, the backend is on the general server that everyone uses for practically everything. Yet this file was the only thing not working (or so they tell me).
I doubt it has to do with the system administrator doing work on the server, since our system administration is outsourced and the guy only comes on Tuesdays (this happened on a Monday).
So it looks like the Solitaire and eHarmony scenario is indeed the most likely answer.
Hmmmm...
Angi
I had the same problem for a while, with the monster database I'm in charge of.. Every time I had a day off, it would completely explode, giving error messages to the users that I had never seen before, record lockdowns, all kinds of horrid stuff.
But the minute I get into work, it would be fine. I'd have a pile of printed screenshots on my desk as proof, so I knew at least they werent making it up.
I figured it had grown its own AI and was throwing temper tantrums when daddy wasnt around =)
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