Thanks Jenda and George, Considering the hosting company is a rather large conglomerate, and their answer to any question I have regarding databases is to send me to their helpfile, which does not mention databases or Perl anywhere, it might be time to change who I am giving my monthly fees to....
Thanks again, Garry "George Schlossnagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I'm putting this back on-list since other people may be interested in > continuing this thread. > > If you already have all this information in an access db and you like > access, I would recommend finding a hosting provider that will host your > access app. Alternatively, a provider that would provide you a mysql > database user account would be good as well. Certainly the latter is a > pretty standard hosting option. I can make some non-authoritative > recommendations for hosting options, Im sure other people can suggest > some as well - it's really a smorgasborg. > > Most of the flat-file database technologies (actually, all that I know > of), only support key-value pair matching. They are basically like a > persistent hash. You can of course implement a simple database with > these, but the more database-like functionality you want out of it, the > less appropriate a solution it is. I would recommend doing a bit of > research by looking at NBDM_File (perldoc NDBM_File, try out the > examples, etc.) and see if that does what you want. If it doesn't I > would find a hosting provider that gives you some rudimentary database > access. > > George > > On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 04:47 PM, Garry Hojan wrote: > > > Hi George, > > > > Thanks for the quick response. I am trying to develop a database that > > will > > allow someone to select a country (or list of countries) and a type of > > product, then based on this criteria have it bring up another form and > > based > > on the that query have it return a large amount of information. Any > > suggestions how I can do this, especially when I am not in control of > > the > > hosting server? > > > > Best regards, > > Garry Hojan > > > > > > > // George Schlossnagle > // Principal Consultant > // OmniTI, Inc http://www.omniti.com > // (c) 240.460.5234 (e) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > // 1024D/1100A5A0 1370 F70A 9365 96C9 2F5E 56C2 B2B9 262F 1100 A5A0 > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
