Improving the performance of a Shared Access Database

http://www.fmsinc.com/microsoftaccess/performance.html

http://www.fmsinc.com/microsoftaccess/Performance/LinkedDatabase.html

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access-help/about-sharing-an-access-database-on-a-network-mdb-HP005240860.aspx

I've implemented the trick of holding the lock file open and it seems to be helping. Counter intuitive to all the energy I have spent releasing resources in other languages and systems but anyway.... it works. I am also doing a lot better with caching results and doing my joins in code rather than via SQL. Anyway, back to the bug hunting...