Summary
It's important that you have a strategy before you begin the application-development process. This chapter introduced many strategic issues, such as Access's role in the application design model and the processes of splitting a database into tables and other objects and using Access as a front end.
Many people don't fully understand the Access runtime engine, so this chapter explained what it is and what it isn't. It also explained what you need to be concerned about when preparing an application for distribution, including the importance of properly securing your databases.
Finally, the chapter covered converting to a client/server environment, explored the benefits and costs involved in such a conversion, and discussed the different ...
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