Access Database on Linux

[Ray Parrish]

CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> Ray Parrish wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for the tip, however I have no Access Database program to import 
>> the resulting exported file. The program, I guess, resides on the 
>> server, and I have no way to use it without first creating  a database 
>> to access. I can add to an existing database with ASP once one is on the 
>> server,, but it's a chicken or the egg situation without first having 
>> one to write to.
>>
>> I can get Linux hosting at my current web host, but it involves 
>> switching packages, and if I do that I lose my perk of free domain name 
>> registration for the life of my current package. Since I'm a poor boy, I 
>> want to keep those domain names free. 8-)
>>     
>
> Surely your time can't be so worthless that you'd actually make
> development choices that you'd have to live with for a long time based
> on "saving" a few bucks a year for "free" domain registration.
>   
Actually, I'm disabled and live on $800 a month, so saving $20 the one 
month my domain names come due is a big deal to me. My time is pretty 
much my own, and I choose to spend it on the computer, so I don't mind a 
bit of extra coding now and then. 8-)
>   
>> I've been studying the ASP tutorials on the W3C Schools web site and it 
>> doesn't look too difficult to me. I can even use Javascript to create 
>> .asp pages, if I want to avoid learning VBScript, but I used to program 
>> in Visual Basic so VBScript shouldn't be too hard for me.
>>     
>
> Django <http://djangoproject.com> with PostgreSQL behind it is head and
> shoulders above ASP/VB/Access. I often encounter VB or PHP refugees on
> the Django IRC channel (#django on irc.freenode.net) who are learning
> Python and Django simultaneously and they seem to manage just fine.
>   
Once again, my server is Windows based, so this will not work, as they 
only have versions for BSD, Linux, and Mac. My host will not let me 
install things like that anyway, I have to use what they have already 
installed.

Later, Ray Parrish

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