![]() It'll probably be something fairly lightweight anyway and a small installation footprint would definitely be a I was unaware that the MS Access 2007 runtime is free thanks for pointing that out. I had considered that but I've not made any firm decisions about which way I'm going with this yet anyway. But you do raise a very good point about the installation footprint. The nice form designer, the nice reporting engine etc. See Also: Open Source Reporting kind of hit on what I'm thinking of it's not so much the DB engine as I want the other niceties that Access brings to the party. Question: What are the low cost or free database alternatives to MS Access? MySQL + writing custom DB code in C++ or Python or whatever seems like a rather heavy-handed solution.It could be done fairly easily with MS Access but I'd like to be able to distribute it to others and I don't want to pay for a runtime license. Consider the need to develop a lightweight desktop DB application on the Microsoft platforms. ![]()
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