21. Using Access as a Back End to Enhance Multiuser Access to Data

The example near the end of Chapter 19, “Text File Processing,” propose a method for storing 660,601,620 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 Access multidimensional database (MDB) files.

Even before you have more than 1 million rows, another compelling reason to use MDB data files is to ...

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