On Thu, 8 May 2008 12:51:54 -0700 (PDT), evenlater
<evancater@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
I think they removed it because it was never very secure. In future I
will implement role-based security based on member****p in Active
Directory groups.
-Tom.
>I realize that user level security is not available for Access
>databases in the new AK27 format .accdb, and I know that I can still
>utilize ULS by making my database an .mdb file.
>
>But I'm wondering WHY Microsoft is scrapping a feature that I've
>always found to be extremely useful. Surely they don't expect that
>users of the new database format will no longer have a need to assign
>permissions at different levels for different users! Why would they
>want to make Access LESS powerful for a wide variety of uses?
>
>So I'm thinking they must be thinking that .accdb developers will use
>a different method to achieve the functionality previously offered by
>ULS. Is the built-in ULS feature unnecessary because the same results
>can be achieved using VBA? (Of course, there have always been some
>kinds of permissions that can only be managed with VBA -- for example,
>ULS can be used to set table-level permissions but not record-level
>permissions.)
>
>Also, what are the selling points of the new .accdb format? What
>advantages does it have that .mdb does not? I am concerned that if I
>develop a new db in the old format that future versions of Access
>might not sup****t it.
>
>Thanks for your counsel.
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