Should I Keep Using MS Access 2000 Or Upgrade It To SQL Server?
Jul 12, 2006
Hi
I would like to get some advise on the capacity of concurrent users on Access 2000. Here is my situation:
- I have a vb6 application that connects to one database(currently is a access 2000 mdb) via Adodc .
- There will be 6-8 copies of this application running on different PCs and that database is shared .
- All 6 PCs read/write to that database concurrently.
I wonder would Access 2000 be a reliable choice?
Thanks for your time
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Dec 1, 2005
Probably this question has been asked hundreds of times and yet netsearch has not generated satisfactory enough answer, at least, to me.And OK, let's assume your organization has more than 200 employees,just one measure to indicate that it's not small and data processingneeds are quite extensive (for both OLTP and OLAP).We've heard so much about concurrency support, stability andperformance. Are there any real persuasive paper out there to talkabout it? Now, let me also put it in another perspective, say, you'rea Microsoft sql server sales guy or gal for that matter for newaccounts. What you got?Thanks.
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Jun 22, 2006
This question probably has been asked many a time. And yet I feel itis still relevant for one thing a search on this NG does not produce adesirable answer.It is kind of disappointing that MS would not be able to transfer ERrelationship from an Access db to a SQL Server 7/2000-based one, theupgraded db/imported tables sitting on the SQL Server would not havePKs, say, you have 100 user tables, you have to first recreate PKs foreach of them then set up relationship between/among them, quite timeconsuming. Do you have a better way?Along the same line of the task, what options out there for convertingAccess Modules into SQL Server-based Stored Procedures and/or UDFs?The manual option is sure there, third party tool? I wouldn't trustthem that much though.TIA.
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Jan 23, 2004
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SQL server does not exist or access denied.
We don't have SQL server SP3 installed.
ola
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I'm currently upgrading from Access to Sql Server, and I have a broken query that I cannot find a fix for.
The original query:
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I get the error "Msg 145, Level 15, State 1, Line 2
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If anyone knows what changes I can make to the query, you'd really be helping me out.
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Hi,
first time poster/newbie here.
I've
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is driven by and Access database. It basically calculates points
scored for a user getting certain predictions correct. This is the URL:
http://www.pool-predictions.co.uk/home/index.asp
There
are two sections of the site however that have almost ground to halt
now that more users have registered throught the season. The players
section and league table section have gone progressively slower to load
throughout the year and almost taking 2 minutes to load.
http://www.pool-predictions.co.uk/home/players.asp?tab=a_d
http://www.pool-predictions.co.uk/home/table.asp
All
the calculations are performed in the Access database Ive written and
there are Access SQL queries to get the data out.
My
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alos suggested to me that I use stored procedures and SQL Server to
speed things up? Ive never used SQL Server before so I am bit scared
about using it (Im only a hobbyist), and I dont even know what a SP is
or does. How easy will it be upgrading the whole thing to SQL Server
and will it be worth the hassle, bearing in mind I expect my userbase
to keep growing? Do SP help speed things up significantly? Would
appreciate some advice!
Thanks in advance,
John.
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Parameter
Access 2000/XP
SQL Server 7.0
SQL Server 2000
MSDE 2000
Number of instances per server
n/a
n/a
16
16
Number of databases per instance / server
n/a
32,767
32,767
32,767
Number of objects per database
32,768
2,147,483,647
2,147,483,647
2,147,483,647
Number of users per database
n/a
16,379
16,379
16,379
Number of roles per database
n/a
16,367
16,367
16,367
Overall size of database (excluding logs)
2 GB
1,048,516 TB
1,048,516 TB
2 GB
Number of columns per table
255
1024
1024
1024
Number of rows per table
limited by storage
limited by storage
limited by storage
limited by storage
Number of bytes per row
(Excluding TEXT/MEMO/IMAGE/OLE)
2 KB
8 KB
8 KB
8 KB
Number of columns per query
255
4,096
4,096
4,096
Number of tables per query
32
256
256
256
Size of procedure / query
64 KB
250 MB
250 MB
250 MB
Number of input params per procedure / query
199
1,024
2,100
2,100
Size of SQL statement / batch
64 KB
64 KB
64 KB
64 KB
Depth of subquery nesting
50
32
32
32
Number of indexes per table
32
250 (1 clustered)
250 (1 clustered)
250 (1 clustered)
Number of columns per index
10
16
16
16
Number of characters per object name
64
128
128
128
Number of concurrent user connections
255
32,767
32,767
5
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