[thelist] ms access website solution?

[david.landy at somerfield.co.uk]

A bit past the sell-by date on this one, but here's my 2c worth...

I'm an Access fan, and given all the (perfectly sound) reasons Nick gave for
preferring MySQL over Access, I'm now asking myself, "why?" - apart from the
fact that it's the devil I know ;-)

Here are the things that come to mind:

1. I can easily cut code to tweak the data in VBA - but then again, I could
also link MySQL tables and do it that way, so this doesn't count.

2. Wizards for complex queries - but I could run them and then port the code
to MySQL, so this doesn't count either!

3. Crosstab queriy support for data roll-up is built-in, with a great wizard
- does MySQL have this?

Apart from that, it sounds like MySQL knocks the socks off it in terms of
functionality.

<rant>
And of course, MySQL wasn't hobbled by Microsoft as a web db in later MDAC
releases which arbitrarily limit the number of active connections to an
Access db for no good reason that I can see, and also prevent changes to
data in Access 97 db's, also seemingly for no good reason!! To me, it seems
like both of these moves were designed to "encourage" web designers into
buying MS-SQL Server, and/or upgrade to Access 2000+. But maybe I'm being
too suspicious?
</rant>

HTH

David





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