June 1999
Intermediate to advanced
1368 pages
29h 45m
English
The business application shouldn't encounter many conflicts of data caused by replicas simultaneously updating the same data. Resolving conflicts isn't agreeable to users and will be time-consuming.
Focus on applications where data is more often inserted, rather than where existing data is updated. The only exception is where you can guarantee that all updates will occur at a single site, and therefore conflicts between replicas will never occur.
Replication provides data on a “real-time-enough” basis to remote sites. If your business application requires up-to-the-second synchronizations, consider a two-phase commit solution, not Access replication.
Although conflicts should be rare, you can reduce ...
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