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I've been developing databases and applications in MS Access for 10 years now,
and have experienced every version since Access 2.0. Fortunately we're not

Just wondering if anyone can help me with this problem, maybe provide some
suggestions?
12 months ago we started using a field sales contact database for a team of
8 salesmen, this has worked very well the primary key for the contacts is

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I have a shared db on the network.  How can I determine if anyone is in the
db, and their Network ID.  When I need to perform maintenance on the db, I
want to make sure that noone is in it.  And if someone is it, I need to
identify who they are so that I can contact them.

Dear friends,
I have a very simple access database:
It only has three column: sales person ID, invoice number, invoice amount
What I want to do is:

Is there a general checklist to ascertain whether an office pc network is
'up to' having an Access split multi-user database running on it? Are there
any specific points about a Windows XP Pro network that need attention?
Regards,

Till now i have Access 2.0 db xxx.mdb on Novell server and Access 2.
clients on XP workstations. Also I have Access 2003 client with d
yyy.mdb on local workstation, where are the linked tables from xxx.mdb
reports and queries whoes take the date from linked tables. Everythin

We have 10 users using access XP 2002, accessing an access database with
about 300,000 records. currently it is taking about 6-8 minutes per lookup on
the database which resides on a windows 2003 server with 2 gigs of Ram. Is
this normal or is there something I can do to speed ...

Using Acces 2003.
Different FE's:  The client will be the main user of the small database
capturing sales information.  He wants his sales guys to also have a copy of
the database, but essentially a 'cut down' version which will not show all

We just recently upgraded from Windows NT client OS to XP (I have no idea
what the network server is) and from Access 2000 to 2003.  I have some
existing applications that run very very slowly when the mdb is run from a
network share, and then run fine when run from my local ...

I have an access mdb with ODBC links to a SQL table on a remote server.  I
can update records in the SQL table by just typing.  I also wrote some
update queries using joins between local table and the SQL table.  Works OK
but slow.  So now I want a fast and easy way to update larger ...

I have a Table bound to my Main form that opens automatically (autoexec).
The table contains an Auto field, UserID, Date/Time In & Date/Time out fields.
When the user opens the database the Main form opens and a record is created
with the Auto field(Key), UserID and Date/Time In.  ...

I am looking for a way to have a pop up message saying that my clients are
due to pay their bill with 3 days. pls help, I am not too much familiar with
macro or any other programmation but i can catch fast if you explain to me
in details. thank you

How do I lock a record so that only one person at a time can make
changes but any number can view the record at the same time?

I'm thinking of getting a Network Attached Storage such as a Synology:
http://www.synology.com/enu/products/diskstation/DS-101g_plus/index.php?page=ove
rview.html
to share the backend of a FE-BE database with 2-5 users.
Is this possible? How fast must the transfer rates be for it to ...