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QUESTION POSED ON: 11 March 2008
I have a Microsoft Access database I just started. It would be helpful for my purposes if I could prepare for the eventual porting of it into SQL tables and Dreamweaver in a highly secure environment. Its major functions are: bringing in by link an SQL table or XLS file of customers, sending emails, securing by record ownership, monitoring expiry dates. Everything else in it is just data storage. Can you suggest a strategy? Perhaps I should not write it in Access at all, but just wait for the SQL platform.

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Personally, I'd wait for the non-Access platform if at all possible. This would save you a lot of work for porting of the database. It has been my experience that porting from Microsoft Access to other database platforms is not a trivial task, and the one doing the work might have to spend considerable time doing the porting. This is especially true with the front end of things. MS Access's forms and reports are not easily portable to another application platform deployment.


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