Access

For small and large database projects, Microsoft Access works wonderfully. If you have a database with hundreds of thousands of records, maybe even connecting to other databases remotely, Access will work just fine. Security isn’t too much of a problem (no Access database is truly secure), and with a wide range of options for publishing […]

Microsoft Access is one of the most awesome prototyping tools anyone in software development could ever use, however, there are also some really serious downsides. I know the software purists will be rolling over in their graves with my comments, but after 20 plus years of commercial software development for some of the world’s largest […]

A new white paper, “Data conversion between Microsoft Access and MySQL” is now
available as a free download. The white paper highlights the benefits of data
migrating from MS Access to MySQL and discusses common kinds of conversion
problems users will likely experience when publishing a database on the Web.
The document also provides criteria to be taken into […]

To safeguard your data, it’s always a best practice to back up your databases regularly. This is particularly important before you make any major changes to the data or design.
Access 2003 offers a new backup feature that makes frequent backups of individual databases easy. To take advantage of this enhancement, follow these steps:

Companies still relying on Access 97 databases may be doing so because the upgrade path is so painful. Much has changed in the application over the years, and incompatibilities between older versions and current products are common. Microsoft announced the Access 2003 Conversion Toolkit at Tech Ed, and now it has been released. The 52MB […]

So you have a client who is ready for broadband, but they are clueless as to which option is best for them. In the best case scenario, they access to the “big three” when it comes to the access types. The big three consist of cable, DSL, and last but not least, satellite. With the […]

By Matt Hartley
So you are at a client’s home, troubleshooting why they cannot maintain a decent connection to the Internet. You have been able to determine that it is not the ISP or the modem since both worked just fine when you had their PC back at the shop. I have seen a number of […]