Microsoft Access 2010 : Working with Web Databases - Creating a Blank Web Database

1. Working with Web Databases

As its name implies, a web database is a database whose objects can be published to the Web and viewed in a browser. Creating and working with a web database is simple. Here’s what’s involved:

The sections that follow cover all these steps in detail.

2. Creating a Blank Web Database

The process of creating a web database is similar to that of creating a standard Access database. Here are the steps:

1.	Click the File tab on the Ribbon. Your screen appears as in Figure 1. Figure 1. Use the File tab of the Ribbon to create a blank web database.
2.	Select New. Your screen appears as in Figure 2. Figure 2. You must select Blank web database as the available template for your new database.
3.	Select Blank web database from the list of available templates.
4.	Supply a folder location and file name for the new database.
5.	Click Create to complete the process. The new database appears as in Figure 3. Notice that it appears almost like a standard database, except for the icon for Table1, indicating that it resides on the server.

Figure 3. The web database appears almost identical to a standard Access database.

If you click the Create tab, you will immediately notice some differences between the web database and standard databases (see Figure 4). For example, you can create application parts, client queries versus server queries, client forms versus server forms, client reports versus server reports, and client objects. The text that follows covers all of these objects, including how and when you should use them.

Figure 4. The Create tab allows you to create client and server objects.