RE: MS Access as a front-end to Oracle DB

From: Goulet, Dick <DGoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:24:05 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.005B6DD1.20030620140455@fatcity.com>

Yes, you are misunderstanding it. A simple statement like your will result in only the data required being sent over the network. But if you add in a second table things change, especially if that table is a local access table.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 5:45 PM
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Hi all:

I have been hearing from many people that MS Access is bad as a front-end tool because it tends to do data processing on the clien side instead of the DB side thus moving way too much data over the network. Assuming that this is correct, what is the mechanism of this? If I execute a simple query like:

select f1, f2 from t1
where f3='X';

is MS access going to copy the whole table t1 to my machine and only show the rows with f3 equal to 'X'? Am I misinderstanding it?

tia

Gene

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