[Tutor] database app

[Alan G]

> database and display customer information on web. ok, easy enough.
>     heres the trick.  the database is MS Access. - ick.

ick indeed, but maybe for different reasons...

There is an ODBC database driver that you can use to 
access Access. But you will have to be careful about 
locking if the traffic is high. Access was designed 
as a single uuser desktop database and that legacy 
still shows through. The very latest versions are 
better but if you have more than 1 simultaneous update 
going on at a time I'd consider moving the database 
or using snapshot technology or similar, Access locks 
by pages (default 2K?) which can mean a lot of data 
rows being locked by a single update.

Make sure as a minimum that you are not locking on reads!

HTH,

Alan G.