Re: What Front End do you use with Informix?

MS Access will of course work for some types of products. Just make sure your users don't intend to print 100.000 invoices with imbeded graphics++ in one run, and want the data for the printing to be available within an hour or two and then want's to print that at a remote site. Also make sure they don't ever want to do anything else that involves too much processing of too much data, too many users+++ MS Access works for small things. It isn't the tool for larger systems. Where the limits are will be dependent on the application, the database +++ and can't easily be determined ahead of time. That's a major reason for using other tools for systems that you know will grow larger or even where there is even a remote chanse that they will some time. I would hate to have written a lot of MS Access applications and having to throw them away some time if I could have spent only a little more effort up front and keep the code even in a growing environement. In the end this makes me avoide MS Access for anything but ad hoc use. On Fri, 05 Jun 1998 14:18:32 +0000, Donald Johnson <rp2360@email.sps.mot.com> wrote: >IMHO .... > >Nils Myklebust wrote: >> >> With the better ODBC drivers arround you will have less problems. MS >> Access still isn't a good tool for developing applications. It's fine >> for ad hoc queries and reporting though. > >I would disagree. I have developed some very complicated applications in Access >and have had great success with it. Granted, Jet has its limitations but for >getting an app up quick and being usable Access is hard to beat. When I hit >those limitations thats when I move to Informix as the backend and then I >have the best of both worlds. > >-- >Tony Johnson Email : rp2360@email.sps.mot.com >Senior Database Administrator Voice : ( 602 ) 655 - 4617 >Motorola SPS / Western Region CIM Pager : ( 888 ) 772 - 5229 >2200 W. Broadway Rd. MD M555 Fax : ( 602 ) 655 - 3569 >Mesa, AZ 85202 Alpha : 8887725229@skytel.com >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >We Are One. One Team. One Voice. One Objective : To Be No. 1 With Our Customers. >No RAS. DWYSYWD. LOPOYPDNNMAEOMP. Top Box. WDIRTFTWYCDIA. SDR. > >Murphy's Data Constant: Data will be damaged in direct proportion to its value Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)