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Where should I keep the central database and which database would be appropriate? [closed]

I am developing a gym software in C# as a window application but need to connect it to a central server so that people can install it on their PC's and connect to the same database. I want to package ...
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How to report a bug in MS Access/VBA [closed]

Question: If you find a bug in a "classical" developement tool, you usually prepare a minimal working example, browse to the vendor's online bug tracker and file a bug. For example, you'd report ...
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We are moving an Access based corporate front-end into a Web-based App

We have an enterprise application with a front end written in Microsoft Access 2003 that has evolved over the past 6 years. The back end data, and a fair amount of back-end logic is contained within ...
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What is a suitable replacement for an Access 2003 database required to run an older PC?

Many years ago, I wrote a small Access 2003 database for a non-profit to track the donations they received. They recently wrote me asking for some new features (I was shocked it was still in use, ...
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.NET app - Should we use SQL Server and duplicate some reference data from an external Oracle DB? Or use Oracle and have a DB link?

We're looking to migrate some existing Excel/Access processes into a new system which will provide the users with a Silverlight frontend to run and view the reports instead of using MS Access. The ...
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Best practices for moving large MS Access application towards .Net?

We have a really huge MS Access application developed in-house initially for our personal needs which then was turned into a commercial software and successfully sold. The software is a sort of ...
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Alternative for Access+SQL Server for enterprise projects [closed]

We're a small software company, developing projects for manufacturing facilities about analysis, traceability, reporting etc. We're using Access for front end, SQL Server for back end. We've quite big ...
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Deploying Microsoft-Access databases with our application

Up to now we use DAO 3.51 (MS-Access 97) databases with our application. We are considering using a newer version. Which versions are available? How about deployment? How about royalties/licence ...
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MS-Access to Sharepoint conversion?

I do some volunteer work with a non-profit organization on the side occasionally. My main area of expertise is ASP.NET, C#, and SQL. They currently rely heavily on an Access database for their day to ...
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Why is it that MS Data Access story is so fractured ? Is it the nature of Data Access or is just MS?

This StackOverflow question asks "where can I get Microsoft.Data.Objects" It turns out the answer was probably that its in the CTP4 (code first) release of Entity Framework 4 However there where a ...