[WEB4LIB] Re: Microsoft Access

[Dan Lester]

At 01:17 PM 6/2/99 -0700, Darryl Friesen wrote:
>It's probably an OK database to use as a backend, but it certainly wasn't
>designed to do what you want, and I don't think you'll ever be satisfied with
>just it, nor the Word mailmerge approach suggested (now you have two hammers).
>
>If your webserver is NT I'd suggest looking at active server pages.  They'll
>let you do the update/edit forms, as well as generating pages and doing
>searches on the fly.

And you'll do even better, and write faster and cleaner code, if you use 
Cold Fusion.  Yeah, it costs some non-trivial bucks, but you'll save it 
back quickly.

dan


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