Thanks Jon,
I think that's the elusive url I was after - will try out, will be interesting too see what's going on there too in the source
To answer your question Philip, obviously it's all fun
but yes, all the Applications are running on windows so the odbc-bridge is working a treat with no hassles so far.
I originally wanted to stick with SQL Server beacuse:
a) I know it well, and it's faster to set up
b) it's easy to integrate with the Access database's etc in that office, and
c) simple data migration for my purposes
but once that's done I take your point and will be going the [no dollar] mySQL route for future apps
cheers
Marcus
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