[ale] Linux Frontend to MS Access

[Jeff Hubbs]

I'd walk away from the must-use-Access-DB also.  You would not come away 
being associated with a good result. 

Mike Harrison wrote:
>> The problem with this as I understand it (and I'm not certain I 
>> understand it very well, that's why I'm asking here) is that there is 
>> no Linux ODBC driver for Microsoft Access (ie Jet) that has write 
>> support. MDB Tools [1] has an
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> As last I played in the world, you are correct. Better migration path:
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> 1. Convince them to dump Access for M$-SQL (often not that hard, 
> Microsoft
>    will help you here.. ). Decent MS-Apps and if I remember correctly,
>    even Access itself seamlessly will use an M$-SQL server.
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> 2. Use Sybase 11.0.3 (Free for commercial use on Linux) instead of 
> M$-SQL.
>    Properly setup, indistinguishable by most code from M$-SQL, as it's
>    what M$-SQL is based on (Sybase version 7 was the original M$-SQL, I
>    think). You can even use some of the excellent windows client 
> MS-SQL admin
>    tools on it.
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> Caveat: I haven't done this in the last couple of years, so things 
> have probably changed, but I have, more than once.
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> and of course:
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> 0. Heavy Multi-user use of .MDB file often results in row/record 
> locking issues,
>    slow everything, locked applications, and corrupt data, it's just 
> not meant for that.
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