Is there a way to update data on a MS Access 2000 client from SQL Server without polling a table using the form's onTimer event?
It would be much more elegant if I could push the data to the clients every 15-30 minutes when the data on SQL Server gets refreshed.
Can DTS do this? The forms I'm talking about are select only, no editing.
I know I can do this with java and multicasting, should work with MM Flash as well with listeners. I would really like to take this app to Flash, but we have a 1 month timeline to port from Access to SQL Server.
Thanks,
CarlTry using Access Data Projects. It uses a direct connection to SQL Server and it is what I reccomend for all Access front ends because it provides performance improvements over local and linked tables.|||Cool, that's what we're doing, and ya, the performance increase is huge, even going from pc app to two tier.
I didn't know that would auto refresh my forms, I'll have to see what you mean, I was just telling the boss how tightly integrated sql server is with Access.
Myforms are firing stored procs for their recordsource, wouldn't I have to refire the proc?
Thanks again,
Carl|||yes. this response is too short.|||I ended up creating a one record, two field table, one's TGGL_BIT which flips back and forth between 0 and 1 and the datetime. The app grabs the state at startup, then polls a stored procedure every 5 seconds to look for the bit to toggle, if it does, it fires all the select procedures.
Suprisingly, it doesn't adversely affect the user experience and works pretty well.
Carl|||I also want to say we're looking into TCP/IP multicasting using java sockets. very cool stuff if we can get it going. We're thinking Flash listener may work on the client side.
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Friday, March 23, 2012
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