Re: [spoon-discuss] Database?

["Orc In A Spacesuit" <orcinaspacesuit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On 3/17/03 at 3:22 PM Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:
> > Ooh, and bonus points if it's a Microsoft Access database, despite the
> > fact that I have no love for the evil empire, simply because I am a pretty 
> > familiar with them and making programs for them.
>
> A Microsoft Access database wouldn't be much use on the nomic.net server, 
> since it's Unix-based.  Yes, there may be a Unix-based ODBC driver for an 
> MSAccess database, but mySQL is already there and quite functional.
>
> Right now, inasmuch as my webpage is functional, it relies on both Dave's 
> DB and my own.  Theoretically each Minister could have eir own database and 
> read access to Dave's, or alternately (and I think more simply) each 
> Minister can have eir own tables in Dave's DB, and Dave's and others' 
> tables can be made accessible to all.  That can make for some rather 
> complicated interconnectedness, but cross-table queries are far less work 
> than querying separate DBs independently.

All that really matters is that I get some way to interface with the 
database, other than just me typing in numbers on a form on a web page.  I 
am lacking some basic key element in knowing how to do that.  Get me a 
connection to a database online, and I can go from there.

--
Orc

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