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Microsoft Access provides four main ways of working with a database that is shared among multiple users on a network:
Note SQL Server also provides replication features that use a different "publish and subscribe" model. For more information about SQL Server replication features, see SQL Server Books Online.
This chapter provides an overview of the first three Access database solution architectures listed above, the tools Access provides for creating multiuser database solutions, and discussions of multiuser database solution design and implementation issues.