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RE: MS Access as a front-end to Oracle DB

From: Goulet, Dick <DGoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 07:52:15 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.005B79C3.20030623064514@fatcity.com>


Gene,

        If all of the tables are remotely linked tables then it should not be too bad.  Things like order by and group by will happen locally though.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:10 AM
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Dick,

what if the second table is not local, but another remote ORacle table. How would the things change in this case?

Gene
--- "Goulet, Dick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, you are misunderstanding it. A simple
> statement like your will result in only the data
> required being sent over the network. But if you
> add in a second table things change, especially if
> that table is a local access table.
>
> Dick Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA
> Oracle Certified 8i DBA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 5:45 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Hi all:
>
> I have been hearing from many people that MS Access
> is
> bad as a front-end tool because it tends to do data
> processing on the clien side instead of the DB side
> thus moving way too much data over the network.
> Assuming that this is correct, what is the mechanism
> of this? If I execute a simple query like:
>
> select f1, f2 from t1
> where f3='X';
>
> is MS access going to copy the whole table t1 to my
> machine and only show the rows with f3 equal to 'X'?
> Am I misinderstanding it?
>
> tia
>
> Gene
>
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