At 03:18 25.08.2003, Weston Cann said:
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>I share a low regard for Access, and I've got a set of standard
>forms/code I use to set up a nice interface to MySQL, and I showed it to
>my friend. He likes that, but there's a problem:
>
>He wants to be able to make changes offline, and then sync up.
>
>This isn't an uncommon desire... I've run into people wanting to do this
>before (with Excel spreadsheets, no less). And in fact, it's probably
>the most convenient way of doing things, as long as they're warned about
>certain dangers (overwrites from competing unsynced database files).
>There's a certain cumbersome nature about web forms and the time delay
>involved in HTTP transactions.
>
>So anyway, that's the motivation for using Access here.
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You could do that without too much effort. Export the data to be synced
from MS Access to a CSV style export format, upload it to the server and
process it. There are a couple of examples how to handle CSV style data on
SourceForge, I believe.
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