On Wednesday 05 June 2002 4:28 pm, Jay Liew wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>      I am new to database operations, and I was wondering if there were any
> advantages or using MS Access to MySQL. Don't get me wrong, but I would
> prefer Open Source over proprietary, but this is a mission-critical
> commercial purpose database. Any comments, would be much appreciated. Thank
> you.

MS Access has a graphical front-end and a graphical development environment.  
You have to get these separately in MySQL.

Apart from that, there is nothing that Access does better than MySQL and a 
_lot_ that MySQL does better (multiple simultaneous users, stability, etc. 
etc.)

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