We operate a small retail business with three retail shops. Each shop has it's own PC running Windows 10 and Office 2016 (we subscribe to Office 365 Home edition). We have created a customer ordering database in Access 2016 and now wish all three shops to have access to this (add records etc) We have tried splitting the database and putting the backend on OneDrive and providing the other two with the front end. Whilst this works perfectly for the shop that split the database it is not available to the other two. Can this be done on OneDrive or should we be looking at something like SharePoint?
It won't work. OneDrive is a file syncing service, not a file share.
Move (upsize) the backend to a server engine like SQL Server (Express) or Azure SQL, which you can access from your front end application via the internet.
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I have built a CRM for my company using MS Access 2016, and we are looking to be able to use it remotely. I have currently split the database and have the back-end residing on our company server/shared drive. As I see it, we could put the back-end on SQL Server, but that would mean finding a way to host it. We recently moved to Google Apps for Work and I have been looking at the Google Cloud platform (e.g. Cloud SQL), but I don't know if it will integrate nicely with MSSQL. There's also Sharepoint, but we are are having difficulty even finding it to buy on Microsoft.com, and are trying to move away from Microsoft Office products anyway.
What would be the most stable, cost-effective, and fastest way to allow our employees to use our Access DB remotely?
My suggestion would be to migrate the database into SQL Server as step one. Then step two host the database in Microsoft Azure using the SQL DB service.
You can find more details and pricing here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database/
Be sure you check the single database pricing. Unless you want the elastic scaling and performance.
I'm not sure about the cost part, but the fastest and most stable (IMHO) would be to use Remote Desktop. Either to a user's workstation or to a server set up for it.
We have migrated our backend to SQL Server from MS Access for obvious reasons. Our users access the front end off a VPS Hosted in the cloud. Connection string ODBC. It is robust and fast.
we are currently using a VPS. Looks cheaper and easy to access ;
https://clients.databasemart.com/aff.php?aff=275
I have an application that currently uses Microsoft Access 2013 as a front end with SQL Server 2012 as a back end. When in the office, that's fine for the users, but some of the users need to be able to access (no pun intended) the application from other sites.
Is it possible to publish the Access front-end to the web while retaining the connection to the back-end tables in SQL Server, and allow the access from SharePoint as an alternate means of getting to the application?
There are firewall issues to contend with, so I was hoping that we'd only have to worry about a firewall opening between the SharePoint server (network A) and the SQL Server (network B). I'm sorry I can't be more specific than that.
Hi let me start of with saying I have Zero Experience with SharePoint. I have tons of experience with MS Access and SQL Server.
Normally when i need a Data entry front end i'll go for MS Access, but in this case most (probably all of my users) do no have MS Access so a standard MS Access Desktop App is useless.
I have heard that MS Access Web App can be published on to SharePoint, and then Sharepoint can be shared with our users so that they can enter the data.
Now through doing some reading up. I know that you can create a MS Access Web App through sharepoint then design your forms on MS Access and publish them, and the data will be then stored on to SQL Server of the Sharepoint. I hope I have that correct.
I need to be able to access that data through SSMS infact it will be so much better if I can just create the sharepoint app pointing to my sql server.
It would be really helpful if you could offer some guidance on this.
Create MS Access Web app on sharepoint (With data going into another SQL Server)
Craete MS Access Web App on SharePoint (With data going to the SharePoint Server) - but in this case I need to be able to access the database, and be able to add triggers and constraints.
This might be a very stupid question, but I have no idea how Web App and SharePoint work and I currently have no access to SharePoint so I cannot test. I am basically researching before going ahead and asking for SharePoint from my company.
I have an application which I want to publish using Remote App in Windows Sever 2012 R2.
I did some research and was able to setup everything in a test Win Server 2012 R2 hosted in Google Cloud. Right now, I can access remote apps like paint, notepad etc. which I added to test the things.
https://windows-server-2012-r2-1.cloudsentinelsstudio.com/RDWeb/
But I am confused and have no idea if I need any Licenses for publishing another app for 30 users to access it from different locations.
Please help me.Thanks.
Refer to :
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/d6463a27-0d4f-4eb5-ae72-43ad23811858/confused-about-rds-cals-and-other-cals-and-what-exactly-i-need-for-publishing-remote-apps-for-30?forum=winserverTS
https://www.petri.com/forums/forum/server-operating-systems/windows-server-2012-2012-r2/494633-publishing-remote-apps-for-30-users
and bottom line is in my case I would need RDS CALs for 30 users.
I´m running 2 servers on Rackspace. I have set up a load balancer that balances the traffic between these two servers.
Each of these servers runs a Glassfish v3 server with a Java EE application on it, that offers a web interface to write some data into server database. The problem is that I need to have the same data on each database (server 1 database and server 2 database).
A resolution to this problem is mirroring of databases.
I would like to ask if there is some automated system to mirror these databases inside the rackspace?
Furthermore I ve found Xendros database cloud that is able to work with Rackspace Cloud. Is it possible to mirror these databases inside the Xeround?
Or are there any better solutions ?
Thanks for answers :)
With Xeround you do not need to mirror your database, you create a single database instance and direct your application servers to work with this instance.
For more information you are welcomed to visit our web site http://www.xeround.com