What condierations and guidelines are people following about when to
use MS Access or the new MS MSDE or MS SQLServer?

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Johnson, Mark wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:46:46 -0000
> From: "Johnson, Mark" <JohnsonM(at)issaquah.wednet.edu>
> To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> Subject: RE: Web pages from a database
>
> While not the solution I would recommend, it is possible to use FrontPage
> and Access in concert to build a dynamic site.  If you don't want to learn
> ASP, this will work.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Gerholdt [mailto:gerholdt(at)fredonia.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 12:14 PM
> To: Andrew Armstrong; Hank Marquardt; hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Re: Web pages from a database
>
>
> There is no reason why MS Access is not perfectly suitable for a project
> such as this.
>
> Even far more demanding situations are regularly using MS Access in
> web-related applications. Not that it is the biggest and best by any means,
> nor is it my first choice in a database. But what you describe has no need
> of anything that MS Access can't do.
>
> As I mentioned in private email, your solution will not be a dynamic web
> page but rather an application which can report off the database to create
> static web pages after they are updated.
>
> I'm all for dynamism and web pages built on the fly but there needs to be
> some volatility to warrant the overhead.
>
> pmg
>

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