FE/BE question

To be honest, I've never looked that closely at it.

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"Jeff Boyce" -DISCARD_HYPHEN_TO_END wrote in message
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Douglas

Have you noticed any (serious) performance issues with FE-on-LAN (instead
of
on user's PC)?

Regards

Jeff

"Douglas J. Steele" wrote in message
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Yes, the FE on the user's hard drive should mean you don't need a copy on
the network.

I have seen situations, though, where for whatever reason there will be a
separate FE on the network for each user. In other words, you'd have
FEJeff.MDB, FESkippy.MDB and FEDoug.MDB, potentially all in the same
folder
on the network. Why? I have no idea: I suppose they thought it was
necessary
to ensure that the FEs were backed up regularly. (And I suppose that
should
the users have the ability to add, say, reports to their FE, there may be
some merit in that decision).

And where we work, we're told we shouldn't store anything on our C:
drive,
so I know lots of people who put their front-end on the network.

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"Jeff Boyce" wrote in message
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Hmmm? I had the impression that a FE on the user's PC obviated the
need
to put one on the network... (well, except in "escrow" for the updating
part ...)

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP


"Douglas J. Steele" wrote in
message
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No, I think he did mean FE. You need to do this, for instance, with
Citrix.

While you'd still get issues with unnecessary network traffic, at
least
you wouldn't have contention issues.

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"Jeff Boyce" wrote in message
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Uhm, Tony, did you mean "You could put the BE on the server as long
as
..."?

Jeff

"Tony Toews [MVP]" wrote in message
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You could put the FE on the server so long as each user had their
own
copy of the FE. However this isn't as efficient as putting a copy
on
each users local hard drive.

"Jeff Boyce" wrote:

Uhm, Tony, did you mean "You could put the BE on the server as long as ..."?

Nope. I meant FE.

Tony
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"Jeff Boyce" -DISCARD_HYPHEN_TO_END wrote:

Have you noticed any (serious) performance issues with FE-on-LAN (instead of
on user's PC)?

We never noticed a problem on the Citrix servers at our client. I
might've been a bit more sluggish but who knows.

Tony
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"Douglas J. Steele" wrote:

No, I think he did mean FE. You need to do this, for instance, with Citrix.

At the one client the IT department wasn't willing to setup a special
folder for the FE on the servers so we had to use the server. And I
can sorta see their point. Well, maybe.

Performance was acceptable so I didn't push the issue.

Tony
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