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Graeme Matthew contrado at iinet.net.au
Tue Oct 5 19:39:33 EDT 2004 
I would recommend using firebird RDBMS on windows not access, youre heading 
for trouble

to make firebird adoption easier use a gui from IBPHOENIX.com

Hope this helps

"Aaron Bingham" <bingham at cenix-bioscience.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.4333.1096981582.5135.python-list at python.org...
> Sandeep Avinash Gohad wrote:
>
>>  Hi
>>
>>I want to develope a simple Database connectivity program with python.
>>I want to use MS Access as a backend.
>>Please guide me....
>>If any e-books,links available particularly for database connectivity
>>then please let me know
>>
>>Regards
>>Sandeep
>>
> First, consider if you really want to use MS Access for this.  In my 
> experience, this is mostly asking for trouble as Access is poorly 
> documented and has many bugs and misfeatures you will waste your time 
> working around.  In addition, Access DBs are prone to corruption if 
> accessed by many users at once.  PostgreSQL is a much more powerful 
> alternative, and version 8.0, coming soon, will run natively on Windows. 
> Of course, it is not as "user friendly" in the sense of having pretty GUI 
> tools, but since it sounds like you will be writing the GUI in Python 
> anyway, this may not matter.
>
> If you are going to use Access, Python Programming on Win32 by Mark 
> Hammond and Andy Robinson is an essential reference.
>
> Aaron
>
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