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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robin Cornelius wrote:
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 17:17, Philip Radford wrote:We have a client who is based between Truro and Falmouth who has an accessdatabase which is in need of updating. ;-) I would *update it* to a nice *sql database* such as postgresql or mysql on debian sarge ;-p Seriously, its quite easy to use a ODCB connector to make M$ Access talk to a mysql database. Having the data in a sql database opens many possibilities for data access. You can still use Access *clients* or VB,VC++ etc BUT ALSO php perl etc from server side web stuff. Depends on what you want and need to do really.
Haven't tried it myself, but here [http://www.developer.com/open/article.php/10930_631251_1] is an article with a bit about PostgreSQL + Access with ODBC. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFClL0UOTB9aYEb8ysRAir9AKCxQ6Qy/aR4zR6XImI2FPeGiWoCLgCfcvCN bLbyRKp7EdFxjBggn7SpHIQ= =4tDl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html