All my (home) CF learning has so far been done using Access as a database, and as far as the DB goes I “get it”. There’s no database server, and no need to log on to the database or anything, and setting up table relationships is easy and visual. Oh and its essentially free to deploy.
However, I’m now working on an application that’s likely to be used across several businesses and probably up to 50 concurrent users. I’ve heard that Access really isn’t up to multi user use or production use on an app. What would you recommend as more suitable, preferably easy to grasp, with minimal tweeking needed for my SQL (I used a tool to convert to MySQL and it certainly handles concatenation differently, I dont want to have to do too much debugging), visual interface available, scalable, backupable, and whatever else I need that I don’t yet know I need!
You could go with either MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server Express. Both are free and both work well.
Unfortunately you’re going to have headaches converting your database no matter what you go with. Microsoft Access doesn’t use standard SQL so string concatenation, functions, etc. will be different.