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Is MS Access (JET) suitable for multiuser access?

May 31, 2023 by Tarik

There is so much misinformation in the answers in this thread that I don’t know where to start. I just spent 4 points in reputation voting down the answers with misleading and wrong information in them. the Jet database engine (which is all that’s involved here, as the OP clarified with an edit) is by … Read more

Setting up an MS-Access DB for multi-user access

July 26, 2022 by Tarik

I find the answers to this question to be problematic, confusing and incomplete, so I’ll make an effort to do better. Q1: How can we make sure that the write-user can make changes to the table data while other users use the data? Do the read-users put locks on tables? Does the write-user have to … Read more