Hey, don't complain. I'm a lawyer and working for a big American corporation in Belgium and doing a lot of IT work.

We all use MS Office 97, but as soon as my applications started to outgrow Access, IT suggested to switch to Lotus Notes and having it done by IT in New York (as they are the only ones who hold the passwords to unlock the innards of Lotus Notes)!

I countered by suggesting using Perl ("never heard of it"), Apache ("huh??") and MySQL ("database server, what's the difference with Access?")

It took IT management more than six months to decide and then they only agreed because I already had the application (dynamic web-site) up-an-running on my laptop.

So don't despair, just keep pushing or go ahead anyhow: chances are nobody will notice you run MySQL through Access as a front-end.

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Compacting a MS-Access database from perl by CountZero
in thread Compacting a MS-Access database from perl by Grygonos

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