RE: Database security

From: Kim Christiansen (kcn@carlbro.com)
Date: 09/18/02 

From: Kim Christiansen <kcn@carlbro.com>
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Date:  Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:25:15 +0100

To put it short...

downsides:
no scalability (will fail on large workloads (even average) )
bad performance
hardly any security

upsides:
simplicity

My personal opinion is that I would *never* use Access for a secure
webapplication.
What you want to use is up to you and depends on your needs, for inexpensive
solutions I can recommend mySQL or if it fits your needs MSDE but a lot of
others could do the job...try searching google for other people experiences
and recommendations.

-kim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zero [mailto:zeroboy@arrakis.es]
> Sent: 16. september 2002 21:27
> To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Database security
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> Hi all,
> I'm looking for some good reasons for not using
> Access 2000. Well,
> I don't like it very much but what is the difference between
> access and
> some other databases like postgreSQL or mysql? Are they more
> flexible, more
> secure? Any help is welcome. The question is, is it better to
> use access on
> a secure web application or some other database?
>
> Gretz
>
>
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