in reply to Building a catalog

This is a bit vague, but if I read between all the lines correctly, the bottom line is you have data in an Access database that you need on the web, but the web server can't see the database. Is that correct?

If so, does the data need to be presented real time; i.e., if I change the database do I need to see it immediately? Or can you "publish" the data to the site once per day/hour/whatever?

If the data needs to be real-time, what sort of capabilities to you have on each box (web server, database)?

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Re: Re: Building a catalog
by cdguitar01 (Monk) on Feb 05, 2003 at 15:47 UTC
    Basically, the database would be managed in Access, doesn't mean it couldn't be output as a CSV though. Basically the only time the information would change is if we aquired new equipment, or if a manufacter's website changed. Just the simple stuff. There would be nothing written to the database from a web service, it would only be read by the web site, and hopefully used to whip up HTML pages based on the information it contains.
    I hope that was more helpful.

    Thanks,
    Chris DeGrace
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