[DM-MUG] Fwd: Re: [MacLaw] Fwd: Microsoft Access?

[Bill Davis]

You're welcome.  Wish we had a better answer for you (believe me!)

Do remember that Remote Desktop Connection for Macintosh is FREE for 
download from the Microsoft web site.  I use it regularly, and it's 
pretty good (can't complain for the price!)

You do also have to have a version of Windows that supports turning on 
Remote Desktop Connection or Terminal Services support on the PC you're 
running the Access application on.  (Depending on how many people you 
want to connect at one time, this part MAY cost you money.  Your 
Windows system administrator will need to tell you if you already have 
what is necesary or not.)

There is also an open-source PC emulator called Bochs, as I recall.  
Cheaper (but probably not as good/fast) as VPC.

  - Bill

On Feb 14, 2005, at 9:44 PM, Tonnemacher wrote:

> Thank you all for your insight.  I was considering VPC, however I 
> don't feel it is worth the $$ just for this little problem.
>
> I will make do without.
>
> Thank you again.
>
> Doug
> On Monday, February 14, 2005, at 09:31PM, Bill Davis <billd@ecity.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> That won't really do it; you could convert the data tables, but not 
>> the
>> data entry form, reports, queries, and Visual Basic for Applications
>> program code, and if they are using an Access-based third-party
>> product, then it certainly does involve entry forms and VBA code (or a
>> standalone Windows program that reads Access .mdb data files)
>>
>> There really is no solution for converting or running Access databases
>> like this on a Mac except using Virtual PC, Guest PC to run PC 
>> software
>> on your Mac, or by using the free Remote Desktop Connection for Mac to
>> connect to a physical PC.
>>
>> If the database in question uses JUST the data tables, however, then 
>> it
>> could probably be converted to a cross-platform database such as
>> FileMaker without much difficulty or time.
>>
>> (I program Microsoft Access databases and Visual BASIC programs for a
>> living, by the way.)
>>
>>  - Bill Davis
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 14, 2005, at 7:26 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not aware of anything like this when I searched a year or so 
>>>> ago.
>>>> The
>>>> firm I was forming uses TrialWorks Jet, which is Access based. There
>>>> was no
>>>> mac version of access, hence no mac version of TW.
>>>>
>>>> You might see if your employer would consider using a different
>>>> database
>>>> such as MySQL. From what I understand it is possible to convert
>>>> access to
>>>> SQL.
>>>
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