Re: Only want to insert a record

Dave wrote on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:58:56 -0000:

> Dear Mark,
>
> Thanks. I'll try looking into the user permissions aspect although the
> database is simply a personal one on my PC with no security settings set.
> Of course I only wanted to use Access as a simple convenient platform
> (which I know) to do the development the actual platform is a real
> database (I think it's MySQL) on my provider's server. It is a good
> suggestion though to look at alternatives eg MySQL or the 'lite' version
> of SQL Server (I did not know there was one!).
>
> But really, it SHOULD be possible to do this simple thing with Access
> should it not? I can't believe nobody out there has done it.

Who says nobody has done it? I've got simple ASP applications running here
that use Access databases and don't have the problems that you're having.
I'd completely forgotten about having to give IIS permission to the .mdb
file to modify it - without that, it's always opened in read-only mode.

Dan


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