On 6/22/2005 11:38 AM, Thomas Bartkus wrote: > Will McGugan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Hi, >> >>I'd like to write a windows app that accesses a locally stored database. >>There are a number of tables, the largest of which has 455,905 records. >> >>Can anyone recommend a database that runs on Windows, is fast / >>efficient and can be shipped without restrictions or extra downloads? >> >>I have googled and found plenty of information on databases, its just >>that I dont have enough experience with databases to know which one is >>best for my task! > > > If you are writing strictly for the MS Windows platform > And > If the database is running single user with a "locally stored database" on a > Windows workstation. > Then > The MS Access file based (.mdb) system is hard to argue with. > You wouldn't have to distribute the (rather expensive) Access application > since this is little more than a front for the underlying DAO/ADO database > libraries that are built into the warp and woof of MS Windows. Your Python > application can address the DAO or ADO directly as these will libraries will > be pre-installed and/or freely available for MS Windows. Fast, freely > available, no license restrictions, and no need for extra downloads for a > reasonably recent (Win2000, XP) operating system. >
And then XP Autoupdate executes, some of those Access/MSDE libraries are updated, and you app is broken. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
