From: Donna Rae Subject: *CAL* Access/Client Server User Group Meeting - 11/10/99 Date: Monday, November 08, 1999 11:53 AM Hello everyone- Sorry about the short notice, but we hope you can come anyway! The Microsoft Access/Client Server User Group is meeting THIS WEDNESDAY, November 10, 1999, from 5:30-8:30PM at Daniel Webster College in the Eaton-Richmond Center, Room 122. Call Lisa at 978-749-9600 or visit www.lunasystems.com for details. As always, attendance is free and no reservations are required. Here’s what’s up for the night: (times are approximate and subject to change) 5:30 – 6:30 PM: Q&A How many users can work an Access database simultaneously? As Rick Lunetta pointed out in Waltham two months ago, it depends totally on the design - and it cannot be a desk top design. Bring your knowledge and your questions to this session. It will be helpful for all. 6:30 – 8:30 PM: Program This evening's program is devoted to the role Access can play in a client server application. With local copies of an MDE and linking to data in either an Access or SQL back end, many multi-user applications can be built that will run very nicely. But as Rick Lunetta of Luna Systems pointed out two months ago in Waltham, the application has to be designed for multi-user on a LAN, where bandwidth considerations are prime. Summit Computing Associates recently developed and installed an application at a manufacturing site in New Hampshire using Rick's comments as a guide to the design of the application. Bob Young will outline the design concept and demonstrate the results that showed no problems at all with 10 users editing and retrieving operating procedures and conditions at a client's site - and this used Access as the data repository on the server. Rick will follow up with comments and extensions to larger scale applications. For questions about this or other programs visit www.LunaSystems.com. Hope you can make it!