The MS Access Data Project Application (ADP)

An MS Access Data Project (ADP) replaces the native MS Access Jet Engine data store with a SQL Server database.  All Queries are replaced with SQL Views, Functions and Stored Procedures.  The design interface supports editing the SQL content in the MS Access ADP project file.

Developing MS Access Data Projects does make the MS Access application "a web based database available on the Internet," however this approach does require that all Users run the MS ADP application through the MS Internet Explorer browser, and each User must have a locally installed copy of MS Access (or the appropriate MS Access Runtime engine) for the web-based database application to function properly.

MS ADP applications are limited primarily due to more complex deployment issues e.g. MS Access Runtime and/or IE Browser availability and version issues.  While overcoming some of the inherent MS Access multi-user deployment limitations, the MS Access Data Project approach can also suffer from poor performance (vs. standard web based database applications) due primarily to the start up of the local instance of MS Access.  Data security, reliability and integrity are Excellent, albeit entirely dependent on the SQL Server design.

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