Quoting William Villanueva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > (2) There's no reason why a Web site running on a non-Microsoft > > platform couldn't use MS Access as its database back-end, in as > > much as one can reach MS Access via ODBC. > > So, they can just upload the Access DB to the server? I mean do they > need to setup some programs on the system?
Hmm, that's _not_ what I was referring to. I was talking about a situation where the MS-Access binary continues to run on a Win32 box, being reached from the Unix Web server for database lookups via TCP/IP sockets, using the ODBC database-access protocol. Essentially, this would shoehorn MS-Access into the classic client-server database LAN model. On reflection, whether this would actually work in the real world or not might depend on whether MS-Access can be made to function in daemon mode. It's (the MS-Access "Jet" database engine is) such a junky, feeble database engine that I have my doubts. To answer your question directly, I know of no native Linux databases able to use an MS-Access datastore as an operational datastore. (This is probably in part because it's an awful, corruption-prone format. MS-Exchange Server uses "Jet" for its message store, which is why all MS-Exchange Server installations tend to autocorrupt that message store regularly. So, why would you voluntarily use it for operations, when there are better things?) If for some bizarre reason you were intent on using the Win32-binary MS-Access engine on Linux, one of the many standard methods for running foreign binaries on Linux might suffice. See: http://linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/future.html#ALTERNATIVESWIN32 -- Cheers, Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
