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Splitting Database with Updatability
Richard Stein 
      
14 months ago
I created an Access database that works as a crm for my wife's business.  This database is used to send out bulk emails and keep a history of phone and emails sent to those potential customers.  When we strike a winner, it gets elevated and becomes active in her company's sales database.

Additionally I developed along with my son (he's the guru) in C# a program which grabs and scores potential web sites as possible leads.  For those promising prospects I have an API which sends the customer data to a sql data base to which Access DB is linked

I want to expand now to other businesses which require thier own database.  I created exact duplicates of the sql files in a distinct database on the same machine hosting my original works.  My question is what is the best strategy to create a front end for each new business, that can be easily updated when changes are made to my initial Access Program.  I hope to hire someone to run this second iteration of the combined programs.

If this takes off, I will probably expand the C# solution to handle the front end  chores now being handled by Access, but that is a ways off.

Thanks for your help
Richard Rost  @Reply  
          
14 months ago
Well, if you build your own interface for the SQL Server database and handle all of the CRUD operations that the database requires via API calls, then you don't have to give any kind of security information out to your end-users. They just get their own API key, or you can do username and password.

As far as pushing out changes to your Access database, that's just something that you'd have to maybe email them a zip file. I don't know how big the thing is, not exactly sure what kind of answer you're looking for here. If you have a C# guru, then he could easily build you some kind of application to push out updates over the web or however you want to handle it for your Access database run-in.

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