June 1999
Intermediate to advanced
1368 pages
29h 45m
English
Some tables are updated only once or twice a week, if that often. These semi-static tables could be brought into the local database and increase performance because local tables generally are faster to access than linked tables. Such semi-static tables aren't quite static enough to keep them only in the front end. The solution to this is to replicate them from the back end to the front end when the back-end version is updated.
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This works great for Access-based back ends, but performance will probably be better if you leave all the tables in the back end when it's a SQL Server back end. This is because when you have queries with the data located in more than one location, ...
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