Creating a front and backend application

[Greg]

I know some of the benifits of creating a front/backend application.
but how does this work if you want to update the frontend part of the
application? do you have to reinstall on each compter or reinstall
from the server?

is there some documention that may help me decide weather i should use
this type of database; and how different is it to design than your
normal database?

Many Thanks in advance
Greg

 

[Tim Ferguson]

but how does this work if you want to update the frontend part of the
application? do you have to reinstall on each compter or reinstall
from the server?

Well, "reinstall" is rather a grand word for copying one file over... You
can:-

put it in the users' login script to look for an updated version and copy
it over the old one;

email the new one to the users and ask them to copy it over their old one;

put a shortcut on their desktop to a script that will check for new
versions before actually running the front end;

remind them to look at a web page on the intranet with a link on it like
<a href="file:\\databases\mdb\MyNewVersion.mdb"> and that will copy it
over;

you can copy it from your workstation to theirs, if their PC is on and you
have sufficient access rights;

.... and so on.

Hope that helps


Tim F