RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ4 - ASP Site

["H.P. Noordam" <bno@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Hi
>
> one of our customers want to use a ASP designed page - and now we have to
> activate ASP for this.
>
> He wants to use Microsoft Access Db (.mdb) for source file.
>
> As far as possible I followed the description at
> http://pkgmaster.com/howto/casp_mysql_howto.shtml
>
> but we dont need it for mysql.
>
> Can you tell me what to do differently that ASP is working for
> this customer
> ?
>
>


short answer i am afraid, you cant.
msaccess tables are a windows only format, they will have to scale up there
msaccess tables to a real database (like postgress or mysql).

there are several tools free avaiable on the internet which can convert your
access database almost single click to mysql. apart from that, if there code
is written cleanly, with a single .asp documnet making the connection to the
access database, then they will have to rewrite only the connection dsn. If
they wrote the code to directly access the tables in all there files without
a dsn (which you see much in windows asp code) they will have to rewrite the
entire applications.

Bob.