Access front end SQL Server back end served me well for years in a large corporate environment. The report creation is a wiz , a lot easier to knock out a report that Reporting Services. I agree a large user base over a network is a bit iffy which is why I ported from an Access db back end , that said we managed up to 50 users across a network with no issues. I eventually ported it to SQL and ultimately it was "taken over" by a dot NET app , mostly because the IT dept couldn't cope with an Access App that worked !! Mike

Reminds me of the time my 5 year old daughter visited me at the office before lunch one day. I was preparing some geological maps (on paper back then) when she came in. I finished, then we went to lunch together. A couple of weeks later there was an open house at the school and her kindergarten teacher asked me what I did for a living. I told her I was a petroleum engineer. She told me that my daughter had told the whole class that her dad had the best job in the whole world, because I got to sit at a big desk and color all day. :) CQ de W5ALT Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software