Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3149 mails)

[jalal <the_jalal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Access will work well with MySQl with the MyODBC wrappers, and they are 
very easy to setup. That said, I rarely use it except for getting a 
preliminary overview of a database.
You may want to introduce your chappie to phpMySQLAdmin...

Derek Fountain wrote:
> > Thanks to all you three that have replied. One more question, what are you
> > using as a client to access the database on a windows machine if your are
> > using something. The guy here wants to use access as the front end, an was
> > just wanting some imput on that. again thanks for the info.
>
>
> Windows... Windows... Ah! Yes! Dubious Microsoft technology! Nope, don't use 
> that. I have used Openoffice as a front end but I wouldn't recommend it - too 
> buggy and not enough features.
>
> Anything which talks to an ODBC enabled SQL server should work if you plug 
> the MyODBC modules in. Says he, who is far from an expert on these things...