Network Administrator

Question

Since I was a kid I always dream of creating something that is recognise by people that I have done something. But as for I'm in the networking path, so I want advice on what path I should either as a developer or as a network administrator.

Answer 1

1. First, you have a shared database and all these users are on same Network. They will share same database and database can be a SQL Server database. I am not sure if you can do this. If database is Access, it can be placed on a shared drive.

2. Whenever you update your application and database, you will have to let your users download the latest version and replace the old version with this new version.

3. Yes, you will have to build a setup program so your users can run it.

4. If you do not want your users to handle any of the work, you can build a Website and they just have to go to the URL and you control both application and the database.

5. You can build a Web Service and your client applications (on user machines) will call Web Service and web service will sit on top of the shared database.

Answer 2

Okay, so I use an access database on a shared drive. Thats fine. I can set it up fine, and have others access it fine. I run into problems with serializations though, so I made a work-around by serializing to a shared binary file. I REALLY don't want to do this, but I can't seem to serialize a class instance and store it in the access DB.
What classes work best with access databases? I've been using ADODB.

Answer 3

May be  Firebird ?