All of thats fine.... it's just tha thaving to parse it all through a web server to test etc... where as access lets me run from my desktop!

No reason I can't do both.... get the basic running in...

May be rude to ask, but care to tell us the names/addresses of the company that want to charge you a fortune for mysql?

I think companies like that should be shouted out on the net so others are...

I know how to use access... pretty good... not to hot on the sql language, yet can get it to do the simple stuff (which you can do with access any way, so no great advantage there ! LOL).

Still......

hmmm...well I learned access in 1 month (the basics), and I'm pretty good with DB design in general... so it shouldn't take to longh to get the basics... it's all teh advanced stuff that concerns...

will that have a forms like interface that access does to creat front ends?
I mean, a visula builder...wysiwyg sort of thing, or is it merely a visual DB builder?

Well, firstly, what do you have?
Not the cards.... the database!

I'm assuming you have mysql, due to the forum.....
So, are you going to make it text based, typing everything... or going to get...

Hi folks......

I'm a bit new to this... played with DB's on an off for years...... now getting back to programming and web design, learning to play with all the big boy's toys etc.
LOL

Yet I...