Re: Porting MS-Access to Informix

In article gdr@news.cais.com, mcintoss@dncx.com (Steve McIntosh) writes: >I have just finished prototyping a smallish database using MS-Access. >I now need to port the database to Informix. I am planning on using >ER/Win to create the SQL code necessary to create the database. I >will be using 4GL with Informix so I will be converting some Access >Basic code to 4GL. Has anyone had experience with doing this? Any >problems you can list or pitfalls to avoids? Any information at all >will be appreciated. > > the first question would be why? ... why not just use odbc to connect to the informix database from access and keep the graphical interface. while 4gl can do a lot the interface and the flexibility is nothing compared to access. this comes from an Access bigot who works with 4gl and Online every day.