It's ODBC, not OBDC (I always spell that wrong!!!)
2008/2/7, Juan Pablo Califano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Dave, in one or two really old, small and low traffic sites, I've seen > Access used as the DD.BB (along with classic ASP). Yes, it's SQL capable, > you can connect to it through an OBDC driver. But it really sucks... > > There are OBDC drivers for PHP, so I guess it should be possible to > connect to an Access DD.BB. It'll probably be slow and won't be able to > handle much traffic, but it should be possible. > > If your client insist on using Access, maybe it's because they already > have stuff developed for Access (tables with lots of rows, views, not sure > if there are stored procedures in Access) and they're concerned about the > upgrading "overhead". Maybe upgrading to MS SQL Server is a more suitable > option in that scenario -- not that I've tried that myself, but I've been > told that it's easy and sounds reasonable considering both are MS > products... On the other hand, I once did an "upgrade" from MS Access to > MySql and it wasn't precisely smooth (in part it might just have been that > I didn't / don't know much about MS Access). > > Hope that helps. > > Cheers > Juan Pablo Califano > 2008/2/7, Dave Mennenoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Sorry for that title... I didn't mean to do that. > > > > I have a client who wants to use Access for their database - yeesh... Is > > it > > possible to use AMFPHP (Flash8) with MS Access? Is Access SQL capable? > > Any > > decent hosts that offer PHP and Access? Seems unlikely... Should I just > > tell > > them to man-up and use MySQL? > > > > > > Dave - > > Head Developer > > http://www.blurredistinction.com > > Adobe Community Expert > > http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
