I work for a large multinational company, and you may have misunderstood me a bit. No way is Access our main database-platform. We mainly have our data on AS/400's and our company servers use SQL-server or MySQL, but for some of the small-scale stuff, Access IS the best alternative. For a DVD I send to a customer which enables him to consult a 'small' database, it does the job pretty well. Alan was also mainly concerned about the front-end, as am I. I'd gladly switch these small-scale things over to MySQL, if I had a front-end like Access, scriptable in the same easy way, the same sort of visual query-builder, etc... An Access-like frontend for MySQL would be more than enough for me to dump Access in the blink of an eye.
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Posted by: canckaer on May 23, 2005 05:47 PMAlan was also mainly concerned about the front-end, as am I. I'd gladly switch these small-scale things over to MySQL, if I had a front-end like Access, scriptable in the same easy way, the same sort of visual query-builder, etc...
An Access-like frontend for MySQL would be more than enough for me to dump Access in the blink of an eye.
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