RE: MySQL or MS Access ?

2002-06-06 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] 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 M

Re: MySQL or MS Access ?

2002-06-05 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:28:15PM -, 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-critic

RE: MySQL or MS Access ?

2002-06-05 Thread Cal Evans
man Programmer * Techno-Mage * http://www.calevans.com * -Original Message- From: Jay Liew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 5:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MySQL or MS Access ? Hello everyone, I am new to database operations, and I was wondering if th

Re: MySQL or MS Access ?

2002-06-05 Thread Christopher Thompson
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 4:54 pm, Jeremy P. McKay wrote: > 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-Cr

RE: MySQL or MS Access ?

2002-06-05 Thread Jeremy P. McKay
Solutions. Now, If you were comparing MS SQL Server to MySQLmaybe, 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

Re: MySQL or MS Access ?

2002-06-05 Thread Christopher Thompson
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 > com

MySQL or MS Access ?

2002-06-05 Thread Jay Liew
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 apprecia