Businesses that use Access eventually begin to struggle against its limitations. Now they have an alternative: Move data repositories to a system that provides better performance and reliability and that is more flexible in how it allows information to be used. NuSphere MySQL. Advantage provides the tools you need to follow this course. Advantage includes Enhanced MySQL, a business strength database server that runs under Windows, Linux, or Unix. Enhanced MySQL features Gemini, the table type developed by NuSphere for MySQL that provides performance and reliability en-hancements such as row-level locking, transaction support, and automatic crash recovery. By using MySQL as a data management platform, you can continue to manipulate your data through Access as a front end if you wish. But you can also exploit your data in other ways, for example, by using MySQL to help you establish or strengthen your web presence. To do this, deploy a web server that handles requests from people who visit your site, and tie it to MySQL using a web programming language. NuSphere MySQL Advantage provides all the necessary tools in a single easy to install product. In addition to Enhanced MySQL, NuSphere MySQL Advantage includes the Apache web server and the Perl and PHP programming languages. Perl and PHP both are extremely popular for web programming, and both interface easily with MySQL. To move up to a package that includes PHPEd, NuSphere's Integrated Development Environment for developing PHP-based web applications, consider NuSphere Pro Advantage. The PHPEd IDE is a tool that speeds development time of web-based applications written in PHP. PHPEd is Windows-based but allows you to deploy your applications to Linux and Unix as well.
