Posted by Adam on 03/07/06 05:21

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:23:08 -0600, steve wrote:

>your literal problem is that access (shitty as it is) stores its data in a
>file.

Steve - it's not *that* bad ;-) - for an average sized application.
I've used it with ColdFusion and PHP on pretty busy sites. The usual
networking gotchas in Access (locking) are avoided as PHP (or CF)
handles/buffers the requests.

Sometimes, the client insists on keeping the DB in its native format
(and maybe swaps the whole file over periodically). It can end up
quicker.

The only real downside I find is the weird Access time/date format.

Adam.

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