On 6/16/06, René Tegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i found MS-Access a very reasonable flat-file database. It may lack fancy features like encrytion, but has it advantages as well Pro's: any windows client has the driver installed (no need to install office), accessable by odbc, reasonable sql (very much like mssql server), reasonable fast, able to be used as website-backend (!),
I can't recommend Access files. I've repeatedly seen file corruption in multiuser applications using Microsoft's Access. No user written code ever touched the database but we still suffered corruption problems. Having program data accessable, and thus changable, by the user without my application to control that access has proven to be bad in many of my installations. If the user messes with it I end up fixing the mess. In general I've found almost none of them able or willing to use a database or report writer. It's not portable to anything else but windows. It costs money to buy the development tools. I've found more drawbacks than advantages. -- -- SqliteImporter and SqliteReplicator: Command line utilities for Sqlite http://www.reddawn.net/~jsprenkl/Sqlite Cthulhu Bucks! http://www.cthulhubucks.com
