Looking at Item db in Access is 10,000 in the POS database 37,900

Mar 05, 2005 4 Replies

This is very puzzling, I go to my item look up in manager RMS POS and it says that I have 37,900 records... I look up Item.odb with Access conection and I get only 10,000.... and the Supplier ID is all screwed up... What the heck is going on? Connect and import from Excell and I get 37,900....



Is access realiable? I just purchased it thinking that I could use it as a front end to update data...



Any one throw me bone here :-) Let go, Elevate your life Brent Hauver

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Yes, if you want risk corrupting your RMS database. :-) Fair warning.

The guy has a good question RE viability of Access.

The answers are a little vague, could anybody expla> > I just purchased it thinking that I could use it as a front end to update data... >

Because a ton of "business logic", including some data validation and constratints is built into the RMS Front End - when you go outside the front end, you lose that and need to make sure that you are taking care of it yourself. Since most of that information is not exactly well documented, any time you use ANY outside product to modify data, you are risking corruption. It's not limited to Access by any means.

I'm actually trying to use Access to add, view and modify my customer contact data residing in RMS. What I'm trying to establish is a means by which a sales rep. (separate from the POS cashier) can use the customer contact data in RMS to carry out "CRM" type tasks; i.e. logging calls to customers, create sales opportunities, tasks, etc. against the contact data residing in RMS. I also need the sales rep to be able to add customer contact info via Access into RMS, so that once a sale occurs with that customer, the POS cashier can simply call up the customer info.

I've gotten as far as sett> Because a ton of "business logic", including some data validation and

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