Can MS Access be used online, i.e. over the internet?

[Guest]

Is there any easy way to make Access available over the internet? OK, even
hard ways?

 

[Arvin Meyer]

Is there any easy way to make Access available over the internet? OK, even
hard ways?

You can use Access over a Terminal Server on a VPN connection over the
Internet and the performance is quite good (assuming a reasonably powerful
server) for a few dozen users. That's not exactly an Internet solution,
rather an Intranet solution. You can also use Access with asp code and an
IIS server. We've seen 5,000 hits a day and I've heard reports of up to
50,000. Keep in mind that a full blown Internet site will really benefit
from a server solution like SQL-Server, but Access will do in relatively
light applications.
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Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
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