Re: Questions...

[John Armstrong <siberian@siberian.org>]

I think the internal minivend databases are much faster. I have used 
mysql ( which seriously outperforms MS ACCESS ) and compared it to 
the minivend database structure to find that the minivend method is 
quick! The only real reason( in my opinion ) to use an SQL solution 
is if you need some sort of flexibility or really clean integration 
with existing inventory/product systems. We have used SQL for that 
with great success.

You do not want to encrypt your entire database. In fact, the only 
thing that needs encryption is the credit card # and minivend handles 
that on its own very easily (provided you have pgp set up properly ).

Good luck, enjoy!
John-

>
>I know Minivend has it's own database intregrated, would it be faster to
>connect it on the MS-Access database we have with the webhosting
>service? I heard Minivend doesn't work with Win32 ODBC driver, is that
>true?.I suppose that's what my ISP's using. Would it be better to use
>MS-SQL? I tried to convince my boss to use a UNIX-based solution but it
>wouldn't want to. :(
>
>I heard about PGP encryption of the database, I suppose it is safer than
>on a MS-Access database :) I don't know if I could use the PGP
>encryption on an NT platform, anyone have done this?
>
>Pardon my poor english, french is my primary language.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Vincent Brousseau
>Microson.com
>
>Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s"
>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s"
>Content-Description: Signature cryptographique S/MIME
>
>Attachment converted: Boot Partition:smime.p7s (????/----) (0003A4EC)



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