All, Thanks for the discussion and the information.
I just needed confirmation from others in order to be able to be more confindent in my decision to inform the owner that it is time for him to move his environment to a more stable and reliable foundation of a database. Thanks to all. God Bless You Regards Ray Hughes ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Matthew Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 14:19:37 -0500 >On May 3, 2005, at 2:11 PM, Jake McKee wrote: > >> Just because Access isn't SQL Server or MySQL doesn't make it bad! :) >> > >Yes it does! :-) [ducks] > >Just want to take a moment to strongly encourage anyone who's looking >for a better database solution than Access to check out MySQL, >particularly if you don't have budget for SQL Server or something >even more expensive (although I use it a lot even if people do have >budget). They have a great installer for Windows now that makes it >incredibly easy to get up and running if you're not a Unix-head, and >it's a fantastic database server all around. Version 5 just went >beta and it adds stored procedures, views, and triggers so >functionality-wise it's up there with the best of them, and it's also >incredibly fast, robust, stable, and FREE! > >Sorry to sound like a salesman but I've had nothing but fantastic >luck with MySQL every time I've used it. Check it out if you haven't >already! > >Matt > >-- >Matthew Woodward >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >---------------------------------------------------------- >To post, send email to [email protected] >To unsubscribe: > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm >To subscribe: > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm > > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the EV1 webmail system at mail.ev1.net ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm
