Re: Access Application on Apache
Douglas J. Steele
Access database.
I'm not sure Access will run on a Linux server: it needs Windows, and I'm
not sure WINE is good enough.
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Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
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"jDmiller" <jDmi...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Can you run an Access Application on a Linux server running Apache? It has
> MySQL on it. "Access Application" implies a web form communicating with an
> Access database right? So I guess I'm asking if you can install Access on
> my
> system and if it will run side by side with MySQL?
David W. Fenton
news:OnE9uyWH...@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
> I'm not sure Access will run on a Linux server: it needs Windows,
> and I'm not sure WINE is good enough.
I would never store a Jet MDB on anything other than a genuine
Windows file system. It's too fragile as it is to introduce yet
another point of possible incompatibility.
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aaron...@gmail.com
all pushed MS to focus on their strengths-- instead of horse around
with YET ANOTHER NEW FORMAT then maybe we could use our resources to
help convince Microsoft to save the Access family.
As it is; since you guys sit there and blindly defend MDB against ADP
then you fight for the wrong side.
The ADP movement could use a strong person David.
-Aaron
ADP Nationalist
James A. Fortune
> "Douglas J. Steele" <NOSPAM_djsteele@NOSPAM_canada.com> wrote in
> news:OnE9uyWH...@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
>
>
>>I'm not sure Access will run on a Linux server: it needs Windows,
>>and I'm not sure WINE is good enough.
>
>
> I would never store a Jet MDB on anything other than a genuine
> Windows file system. It's too fragile as it is to introduce yet
> another point of possible incompatibility.
>
I agree with Douglas that WINE doesn't seem reliable enough, but I
haven't tried that. I agree with David that the mdb is fragile,
especially on a genuine Windows file system :-). I have stored backend
mdb's on Linux using Samba and found it to be the most stable and
reliable combination I've ever encountered for using Access over a LAN.
Data access is really fast too. In fact, I think the speed accounts
for much of the improved reliability (edits took about one fourth the
time in my case). On the flip side, if you run into problems with that
setup, you're pretty much on your own.
James A. Fortune
MPAP...@FortuneJames.com
aaron...@gmail.com
I'd love to look into this; does linux support good compression ratios?
simlar to NTFS compression.. but on the samba side?
that would be a killer combo; might make MS world competitive with say
DB2 which does a bunch of compression for certain fields.. right?
with winrar; i can get almost 10:1 compression ratio.. but that's going
to vary depending on stuff like normalization I assume
-Aaron
Tony Toews
> I agree with David that the mdb is fragile,
>especially on a genuine Windows file system :-).
<chuckle>
>I have stored backend
>mdb's on Linux using Samba and found it to be the most stable and
>reliable combination I've ever encountered for using Access over a LAN.
> Data access is really fast too. In fact, I think the speed accounts
>for much of the improved reliability (edits took about one fourth the
>time in my case).
Interesting that. Something to think about. I vaguely recall
reading somewhere that Novell Network was significantly faster in raw
file server throughput than Windows 2000 Server. But MS got Win 2003
Server running faster than Win 2000 Server but not quite to Netware.
> On the flip side, if you run into problems with that
>setup, you're pretty much on your own.
True enough.
Tony
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