Re: How to protect data within MS access?

Ah, while one can ship the SQL Server database file (and log) with your application, it's not as easy as it sounds. Unlike JET, you have to install a service on the client system to read and manage the database.

There is another alternative to highly secure and portable databases: SQL Server 2005 Compact--it's also free. The SQLCe .sdf file can be encrypted.

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"Daniel Crichton" <msnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23aWgNar0HHA.4004@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mike wrote on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:04:25 +0200:

Thanks Stephen , I understand. My application is client application
and plan is to be a cheap. I do not know how to use Oracle or SQL
server in this way...

MS SQL Server 2005 Express is a cheap as it gets - it's free! However, if you're intending to ship this application as a complete package then SQL Server is going to complicate matters a lot.

If you decide to stick with Access, then you might want to look into encrypting all your data within your application. While this will impact performance, it at least means that you're not relying on the Access security which you've already found is very easy to bypass.

Dan


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