Business Solutions VBA and Macros for Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007

Chapter 21. Using Access as a Back End to Enhance Multi-User Access to Data

IN THIS CHAPTER

ADO Versus DAO	462
The Tools of ADO	464
Adding a Record to the Database	465
Retrieving Records from the Database	466
Updating an Existing Record	469
Deleting Records via ADO	471
Summarizing Records via ADO	471
Other Utilities via ADO	472
Next Steps	475

The example near the end of Chapter 20, “Text File Processing,” proposed a method for storing 683 million records in an Excel worksheet. At some point, you need to admit that even though Excel is the greatest product in the world, there is a time to move to Access and take advantage of the Access Multidimensional Database (MDB) files.

Even before you have more than one million rows, another compelling reason to use MDB ...