On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Siegfried Heintze wrote:
I have explained the performance problems with Microsoft Access many times to my customer and he does not listen. (This is because it is not a problem with only he and I prototyping the site). What you describe is a performance issue, not a security issue. It sounds like MSAccess is just as secure as those other databases, correct?
Access is not a multi-user, server-oriented database. This makes it fundamentally distinct from MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, etc, and the usual concepts of security with those databases are hard to apply.
Access is a single-user, desktop database, like FileMaker Pro or Phoenix (the open source database that almost no one has heard of or uses, not the open source web browser (which is now known as Firefox), which lots of people know of and use).
This, to me, implies that any internet facing use of Access (or a similar desktop database) is an inappropriate kludge that should not be used for anything meant to be taken seriously.
From what I've heard, Microsoft makes it very easy for people to upgrade
databases from Access to SQL Server; you should please consider this.
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