SQL Server is a client/server database. It is very fast, very flexible and very expensive. The latest version of SQL Server is alleged to have a reporting module included which is similar to Crystal reports in its functionality. Forms have to be created using another application. The best alternative, also expensive, is to use visual basic for the front end. Licensing is based on either the number of seats or the number of processors in the server.
It takes much longer to build an application in SQL Server than in R:Base. --- "R. Scott Stanfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any problems running R:Base 7 on Microsoft Small Business Server > 2003? What about using the SB2003 Terminal Services? Our company is > proposing to put this in. I understand that SB Server 2003 comes packaged > with Micro-soft's SQL Server application too. Will this work well with > R:Base or does this 'packaging' encourage replacing R:Base with Microsoft's > database system. I'm not that familiar with SQL Server. Is it simply a > database that does not include forms, reports, or applications? In that > case R:Base does R:Base function well with it through ODBC? Is there any > advantage to using MSSQL for the database itself? Please don't take me > wrong I am totally an R:Base enthusiast that might have to explain why to > use R:Base vs other MS products that come "packaged". > > Scott Stanfield > Ohio > > ===== Albert Berry Management Consultant RR2 - 1252 Ponderosa Drive Sparwood BC, V0B 2G2 Canada (250) 425-5806 (250) 425-7259 (708) 575-3952 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
