MS Access (MDB) concurrency

Question

For a small project I need to utilize a simple database with very light requirements: few tables, no more than few thousands of records in total, 2 or 3 users. I am working

Answer 1

It's already been stated several times to use a real multi-user, free database platform. But one of the reasons why has not been stated. This reason is, how many existing, messy, troublesome, large Access databases have started out as "a few records, one or two users max"? I'd venture to say all of them.

Unless there are only two or three employees in the whole company, the odds are that if you develop a useful piece of software, it's going to eventually be used by more than the original two or three users, have more than the original few thousand records, and will expand over the years to include many forms, many more tables, and much more data. You can't redo the foundation of a house once the house is built. Build a strong foundation today, and you can expand the house to your heart's content. Same for software.