[Air-l] Opinions about Web Survey Software (order effects/WEXTOR/Access)

[elw at stderr.org]

> Access
> I'm not sure that I would call Access vulnerable any more than other
> databases are to most common attacks such as SQL injection. I certainly
> agree that Access is not as robust and bad code would allow Denial Of
> Service attacks.  Fortunately the Access SQL logic and tables are easily
> ported to other databases. I'm sure that it has a lot to do with my first
> programming experiences but I find the ASP/Access combination easier for
> rapid prototyping. I also find the resulting product capable of handling
> reasonably robust demands. As noted before, I do intend to rewrite in
> PHP/MySQL.


As someone who ends up supporting other people who want to use this kind 
of software... please, please, please make sure that your kit can run with 
a postgresql backend in addition (or, perhaps, in preference) to mysql.

MySQL is *terrible*, as relational databases go.

thanks,

--elijah