How to enable 1 user to update the database while allowing others to only read in Microsoft Access?

Question

I am planning to put my microsoft access application with forms and database onto a shared drive for around 10+ people to use. However, there is the issue of concurrency. Is

Answer 1

No. You could make something programmatically, but it was sure to be rather fragile, locking everybody out every odd day. Access is a good front-end, but not a good back-end for multiuser. Use another database as back-end. In principle SQL Server Express is the easiest option. Of course, you have to split the database into front-end and back-end, it's not clear if you have already done so. If you haven't, you could try how it works with both parts in Access, but my experiences with multiuser networked Access back-ends are not good.