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databases on the internet

For those of you who have tinkered around with Microsoft® Access®, Excel®, dBase™, or some other datbase/spreadsheet system on your computer realise the power of organised data. The power of this data extended to the internet produces powerful applications.

Once you have data in a database you can design various interfaces to browse or search through the information in a variety of ways.

With web based databases the possibilities are limited only by your imagination.

product catalogues
message boards
knowledge bases
events listings
management systems, eg hazard risk assessment
genealogical information
technical information
and more...

what is required?

There are two basic prerequisites for making databased information available via the internet:

a database system on the server more ›››
a scripting system that can access the database more ›››

These are usually available on good quality servers and hosting accounts.

examples...

We have set up databases using a number of different database formats on a variety of different server systems including:
Microsoft® Access® on Microsoft® IIS4/5 servers
Microsoft® SQL® on Microsoft® IIS5 servers
MySQL on Linux/Unix systems

We are currently preparing to rollout IBM's powerful DB2® database system on a server.