I fully agree!!
access is a heap of shit!
the only reason why I (was) using it was for developing purposes. I am writing
a program that interfaces large databases - the consumer company should be
able to run it on any database. When i'm developing, i probably won't have any
more than 20 records in each table, and i thought the access db might be the
easiest to maintain (i'm leaving the url and driver strings configurable)
okay??!
now you know why i was using access - it actually runs really quickly when
there are 20 records :)
thanks, hopefully you understand
Rob
Danny Rubis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I was wondering when you were going to give up on Microsoft Access.
> You were beating your head against the wall and it was getting bloody.
> By my definition and others, Access is not a real DB.
>
> dbAnywhere is not free. Since you have to pay something, buy
> yourself a DB. Preferably not SQServer because a good
> Type 3 JDBC driver for that thing costs $5000 (Merant).
> Most other DBs include a Type 3 JDBC driver, subsequently,
> DB + driver costs less than $5000. There are many
> other reasons why you should not use SQServer. I have
> experience and if you are interested send me an private E
> for more reasons.
>
> Sans adieu,
> Danny Rubis
>
> Rob Hazlewood wrote:
>
> > Thanks alot - thats what i wanted to know!
> >
> > where would i be able to get the dbAnywhere?? or should i just use a
totally
> > different database. I decided to use access for developing as it is
really
> > easy and quick to change the data in them, but i was always going to
> > distribute with connectivity to any database
> > is access still the easiest db to use?
> >
> > thanks alot
> > Rob
> >
> > Mahmood Shahzad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > AoA
> > >
> > > First thing Access does not provide its services on a particular port
like
> > any
> > > server. So there is no port for Access.
> > > There seems only one way to be effective. You will have to use
dbAnywhere
> > > server. A middle tier like service providing the facility to access
database
> > and
> > > connection. You have to install it on your NT machine and configure a
DSN
> > in
> > > dbAnywhere(its own DSN not of ODBC DSN) against the DSN you have
already
> > > configured in ODBC. Then you can access this database from anywhere.
> > Connection
> > > String will be available in the dbAnywhere Server's DOCs.
> > >
> > >
> > > Shahzad
> > >
> > >
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