[Zope] MS Access interfacing

Casey Duncan cduncan@kaivo.com
Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:56:49 -0600


Joel Burton wrote:
> 
> Yeah, but with some fairness, setting up a database server and linking the
> tables from Access can be tricky, as the "average user" can usually no
> longer make any structural changes (even minor ones) to the tables except
> through semi-arcane SQL commands or specialized programs specific to that
> database server. [ MS SQLServer notwithstanding, but of course, then
> you're into serious $$$]

I was not talking about any database servers. Just linking one access
database to
another. It's all still in Access.

> 
> We use linking to PostgreSQL backend at our org very successfully, but it
> does limit the ability of my semi-power-users to make structural changes
> (even minor ones) to our tables. Of course, that might be a *good*
> thing... ;-)
> 

There do exist GUI tools for Postgres I believe...

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