Access Database on Linux

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

Ray Parrish wrote:
> Thanks for the tip, however I have no Access Database program to import 
> the resulting exported file. The program, I guess, resides on the 
> server, and I have no way to use it without first creating  a database 
> to access. I can add to an existing database with ASP once one is on the 
> server,, but it's a chicken or the egg situation without first having 
> one to write to.
> 
> I can get Linux hosting at my current web host, but it involves 
> switching packages, and if I do that I lose my perk of free domain name 
> registration for the life of my current package. Since I'm a poor boy, I 
> want to keep those domain names free. 8-)

Surely your time can't be so worthless that you'd actually make
development choices that you'd have to live with for a long time based
on "saving" a few bucks a year for "free" domain registration.

> I've been studying the ASP tutorials on the W3C Schools web site and it 
> doesn't look too difficult to me. I can even use Javascript to create 
> .asp pages, if I want to avoid learning VBScript, but I used to program 
> in Visual Basic so VBScript shouldn't be too hard for me.

Django <http://djangoproject.com> with PostgreSQL behind it is head and
shoulders above ASP/VB/Access. I often encounter VB or PHP refugees on
the Django IRC channel (#django on irc.freenode.net) who are learning
Python and Django simultaneously and they seem to manage just fine.
-- 
Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
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