MS Access MS Office Based. It is has more graphic tools. Possibly more people will be able to manipulate the database since Access has very little security, this is not usually an advantage. Lastly only a few people will be able to use you application before MS Access fails... Therefore limiting access to your mission critical applicaiton
I do not really think MS Access is for Mission-Critical databases...but I guess that depends on ther definition of mission critical. Most MCP will agree that MS Access does not scale well and offers little advantages for Mission-Critical Enterprise Class Solutions. Now, If you were comparing MS SQL Server to MySQL....maybe, A Different Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Jay Liew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MySQL or MS Access ? 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
