We currently have users working on an MS 2010 database linked to a MS SQL Server 2012 via linked tables.
I would like to have the users work offline due to a limited connectivity while working on-site. At the end of the day or periodically via a button the users would update the database with their changes. I have also heard about MS Access to SQL Server replication, but haven't found much on this.
I was thinking to do the following:
- Firstly, use an update query whereby the current SQL server table would be
downloaded. - Update the downloaded table with any change which were made to each record
from a local table with the exact structure as the SQL Server table (each
user would never work on the same record). I would use a date field/column to mark any record which had changed and needed to be updated (LasUpdated).
Should I use a series of update queries to update the linked tables or is there a better way?
Thanks in advance.