This means that the tables are stored separately, this is known as the back end (BE). Then all of your queries, forms, modules and macro's etc are stored in what's know as the front end (FE).
Essentially you end up with 2 or more db's. Another advantage of having this setup is if you have many user's using the db over a network for instance, you can locate the BE on a network drive and then distribute the FE to your user's.
This makes it easier to develop and update the FE without affecting the BE. It also means that many user's can commit changes without sacrificing performance.
and something I'm doing is putting different tables into 3 separate databases
and then making one "main" database that has nothing in it but links to the tables in those databases
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