Re: Questions...

[Patrick Schoonveld <pschoonveld@venux.net>]

Uhm, access is terrible. MS SQL isn't much better. MySQL is available
for win32. Get it.


Vincent Brousseau wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm new to Minivend, I read an article about it in LinuxJournal, June
> edition and I was amazed. My employer asked me to establish a new
> shopping cart on our NT-based webhosting service, I decided to use
> Minivend for many reasons. That's not why I'm writing this... it's
> because I have a bunch of questions.
> 
> 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