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Accessing and quering databases
There is some need in our organisation for databases. Users are expecting to
see "nice" web pages to query databases and display results. They may also be expecting to add and edit information in the database through some kind of web-based view. Is Microsoft Access a solution we should be considering? If a database is created in Access how can it be updated and queries by users without providing them with a copy of MS Access? |
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Accessing and quering databases
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:27:02 -0700, itman
wrote: There is some need in our organisation for databases. Users are expecting to see "nice" web pages to query databases and display results. They may also be expecting to add and edit information in the database through some kind of web-based view. Is Microsoft Access a solution we should be considering? If a database is created in Access how can it be updated and queries by users without providing them with a copy of MS Access? Access is not (by itself) very web-friendly. Data interaction in Access is typically done using Forms, which (functionally) resemble webpages but are embedded within an Access database. Using A2007 you can get a (free) Runtime version of Access which lets users interact with and update the database, but not to change the design or structure of the database or the forms and reports. If you really want a web browser as the interface, A2007 is *starting* in that direction and I understand that the upcoming version will do a lot more; but you may do better to store the data in SQL/Server (SQL Express is free!) and use Visual Studio or some other appropriate code to design your own web-based app. -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
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Access is a desktop and network database tool. If you TRULY need a web
application, you need to look at other tools such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL etc. Presumably you need a multi-user application. If what you need can be set up on a network, I can build any database you need. If you want to discuss this further, contact me. Steve "itman" wrote in message ... There is some need in our organisation for databases. Users are expecting to see "nice" web pages to query databases and display results. They may also be expecting to add and edit information in the database through some kind of web-based view. Is Microsoft Access a solution we should be considering? If a database is created in Access how can it be updated and queries by users without providing them with a copy of MS Access? |
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and more grovelling
"Steve" wrote in message
... Access is a desktop and network database tool. If you TRULY need a web application, you need to look at other tools such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL etc. Presumably you need a multi-user application. If what you need can be set up on a network, I can build any database you need. If you want to discuss this further, contact me. Steve These newsgroups are provided by Microsoft for FREE peer to peer support. There are many highly qualified individuals who gladly help for free. Stevie is not one of them, but he is the only one who just does not get the idea of "FREE" support. He offers questionable results at unreasonable prices. If he was any good, the "thousands" of people he claims to have helped would be flooding him with work, but there appears to be a continuous drought and he needs to constantly grovel for work. A few gems gleaned from the Word New User newsgroup over the Christmas holidays to show Stevie's "expertise" in Word. Dec 17, 2008 7:47 pm Word 2007 .......... In older versions of Word you could highlght some text then go to Format - Change Case and change the case of the hoghloghted text. Is this still available in Word 2007? Where? Thanks! Steve Dec 22, 2008 8:22 pm I am designing a series of paystubs for a client. I start in landscape and draw a table then add columns and rows to setup labels and their corresponding value. This all works fine. After a landscape version is completed, I next need to design a portrait version. Rather than strating from scratch, I'd like to be able to cut and paste from the landscape version and design the portrait version. Steve Dec 24, 2008, 1:12 PM How do you protect the document for filling in forms? Steve One of my favourites: Dec 30, 2008 8:07 PM - a reply to stevie (The original poster asked how to sort a list and stevie offered to create the OP an Access database) Steve wrote: Yes, you are right but a database is the correct tool to use not a spreadsheet. Not at all. If it's just a simple list then a spreadsheet is perfectly adequate... John... Visio MVP |
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"Steve" schreef in bericht m... Why don't you give free advise to this OP? Are you too busy advertising and building bicycles? Steve Get lost $teve, No-one wants you here... no-one needs you here... OP look at http://home.tiscali.nl/arracom/whoissteve.html Arno R |
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Accessing and quering databases
"Steve" wrote in message
m... Why don't you give free advise to this OP? Are you too busy advertising and building bicycles? Idiot. |
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Thanks for your response, John. I expected as much. However, may I delve into
your answer a little further? Although I mentioned we would consider a "web front end" for ease of use of the database, we would probably only want or need this to view information that is in the database (similar to setting up "views" in SharePoint lists) and for editing/updating entries (rows). We would be happy with the database creation and administration to be done from within MS Access. I was wondering how we could have databases created and tested in MS Access and then have them hosted on SQL Server 2005 - but with a web front end? Perhaps linking to the database with SharePoint or MOSS? Apologies if I am making the question more complicated... we just don't have enough "enterprise-level" database experience in house. Creating the databases in MS Access, editing and updating the databases in MS Access is quite straightforward. It's getting them created in Access and then hosted and accessed via other means that we are enquiring about (without the need for software or web development skills). Thanks. itman "John W. Vinson" wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:27:02 -0700, itman wrote: There is some need in our organisation for databases. Users are expecting to see "nice" web pages to query databases and display results. They may also be expecting to add and edit information in the database through some kind of web-based view. Is Microsoft Access a solution we should be considering? If a database is created in Access how can it be updated and queries by users without providing them with a copy of MS Access? Access is not (by itself) very web-friendly. Data interaction in Access is typically done using Forms, which (functionally) resemble webpages but are embedded within an Access database. Using A2007 you can get a (free) Runtime version of Access which lets users interact with and update the database, but not to change the design or structure of the database or the forms and reports. If you really want a web browser as the interface, A2007 is *starting* in that direction and I understand that the upcoming version will do a lot more; but you may do better to store the data in SQL/Server (SQL Express is free!) and use Visual Studio or some other appropriate code to design your own web-based app. -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
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