Re: MS Access Programmer New to SQL Server

[Jay Alverson]

PHP works very nice for MySQL.

However it depends on whether you want to do webserver work as well.

I downloaded XAMPP which is free http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html

I installed Apache and used PHP and was up and running fairly quickly.
PHP works similar to Javascript. You can download the PHP chm help file
from the www.php.net which has many examples of connecting to MYSQL and
querying databases. It has a myriad of other tools too (XML and HTMLTidy to
mention a few).

There'll be some learning curve issues, but once you get going, especially
if you have some knowledge of HTML already it can be quite nice.

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Thanks, Jay