Managing modes in Windows application working directly with SQL Server 2008
- by hgulyan
Hi,
I have a MS Access 97 application (but the question is general) working directly with SQL Server 2008 (without application server or anything).
Numbers of users can be up to 1000. Windows Authentication is used.
The question is:
How to handle modes, so
some users will be allowed to work
in read-only mode
some users won't
have access to db for some time
My versions:
Using a table with a mode id for
every group of users, that will work
the same way. On Form Load
application will query that table
for mode id.
Using trigger on the tables, that
must work according to that mode.
The trigger will query mode value
and doesn't work if access is closed
or it's in read-only mode
I know it's not these are not the best solutions, that's why I'm asking for your advice.
There's one more point.
If the mode is changed to "access-is-closed" for a group of users, that group must not be able to query to DB starting that moment.
With first solution I wrote it won't work, because user can be in application at that moment and no form load event will work. How can I do this?
Is there any optimal solution?
Thank you. Any help would be appreciated.
