Microsoft Access or SQL Server: What's Right in Your Organization?

Published: January 7, 2005
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Learn when to use Microsoft Access and when to use SQL Server in your organization. This white paper discusses database needs, evolution, and challenges, the advantages, limitations, and myths of Access, and how to use Access and SQL Server strategically in your organization.

Microsoft Access solves many database problems, but not all, and neither do other tools. As the most popular database product in the world, Access offers the best solution for its range of capabilities. SQL Server is available for more complex solutions, offering the critical back-end database that lets organizations scale their important databases securely.

Organizations that effectively manage and deploy Access and SQL Server take advantage of the strengths of both of these industry-leading products, and give their organization a competitive edge financially and in response to user, market, and customer conditions.

Included in this document:

Database Needs in an Organization

Database Evolution

Database Challenges in an Organization

Access versus Excel

Database Solution Costs

Advantages and Limitations of Access

Exploring the Myths of Access Limitations

Using Access Strategically

What to Do with Access 97 Databases

Using SQL Server Strategically


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