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Will a sole-user, read-only licence be sufficient enough to allow me to convert a QuickBooks database into Access, or will I need a multi-user licence?

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Will a sole-user, read-only licence be sufficient enough to allow me to convert a QuickBooks database into Access, or will I need a multi-user licence?

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A sole-user licence will allow access to a database on a network drive as long as it is not being used by another QuickBooks application. A sole-user LinkBook licence locks a database exclusively. However, if you do need to concurrently share a QuickBooks database, then you will need a multi-user licence. I would like to run QuickBooks at the same time as I am running an ODBC application. But when I try this, I get a “Key violation …. Unknown Database” – error message. Is this due to the fact that I have a sole-user licence, and would I have the same problem if I had a multi-user licence? I need this functionality because I need QuickBooks open to copy some data into a table the ODBC application reads. This can be done many times before the user is satisfied, and it would be nice if the user didn’t have to close and open QuickBooks and close and open the ODBC application every time. A sole-user LinkBook licence locks a database exclusively and will not share data with other users. I

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