I may have to hand in my developer license for this but I think Access has it's place, especially with this kind of application. I vaguely recall reading something about distributing Access "applications" that don't require the user to have Access installed. That said, with Access you are only catering to the Windows users. I strongly suspect that in your target audience, Mac and Linux users come in large numbers.
Hmm.. are there some java based Access alternative? I'm not talking about only the storage here, but the whole package where you can actually make some nice GUIs in a designer view without coding anything.
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I agree with those who recommend not using Access. If you were to use a non-free program I'd recommend Filemaker, which is cross-platform & can create standalone apps. However, I do think SQLite or per your last post something in Java would be the way to go.
I am very glad to hear you're thinking about this because your names database is one of the few things that currently doesn't work well for Mac users.
I am very glad to hear you're thinking about this because your names database is one of the few things that currently doesn't work well for Mac users.
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John Fairbairn wrote:... is possible to produce this in such a way that makes it possible for the end user to run the database without himself having bought Access or whatever
Sorry, I am new to this forum and didn't read all answers very carefully. It seems that nobody answered your question.
Is that what you are looking for?
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Re: Database engines
John Fairbairn wrote:What I can't work out from an initial survey in books is whether it is possible to produce this in such a way that makes it possible for the end user to run the database without himself having bought Access or whatever (i.e. the application saves with the data some sort of truncated engine that means he can run only that database and not create new databases).
You can distribute an Access application to non-Access users by distributing it with the Access runtime which is a free download.