> The other DB that comes to mind is MySQL.
> Now I dont know much at all about it, I have installed it, but that was it.
> Is it a viable contender to MSAccess or MSDE? (and you need to answer
> this wiht out an anti M$ hate on too..hehehe)
> One of the things that I seem to remember about MySQL when I first
> looked at a few years back, was it did not have Stored Procedures. Has
> this changed?
>
> What would be an advantage to use MySQL over Access or MSDE, apart form
> the fact that its a DB Server and its free etc.
If you're distributing the app watch out for the deployment licence, IIRC when you distribute MySQL with a proprietry app it costs $$$.
MySQL has no stored procedures yet. They have finally got themselves transactions, foreign keys, etc, so long as one uses the correct table type. One of the clever things they've done is allow you to use different table types in the same database - so you can have some that have full referential integrety, and some that don't (and the ones that don't go faster).
I can't really think of any advantages over MSDE, assuming you already have a licence to deploy MSDE. But I haven't much experience with MySQL on windows and I've never deployed MSDE, tho I have done some reading on it while considering deploying SQL Server based stuff.
If you're looking for free/lightweight/opensource, how about embedding FlashFiler?
Regards, Seth.
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