I want to ask your opinion.
for example:
Restaurant A is a new restaurant in location B. Usually i manage the information just by book and maybe some excel formula to calculate. The information that i manage is about staff schedule, staff payroll, staff attendance, income, and storehouse.
After a two years, i want to expand my business. I build the same restaurant, but in location C. and now, i realize. Using a book and excel is helpless. Just wasting time for me. i got an idea, how about if all the information store in the computer? Then, I planning to build a system that can help me to manage the information. Actually is a desktop app. Then i bought two computer. one is for restaurant A in B. the other one is for restaurant A in C. i plan to install the desktop app in both of the computer and also install the desktop app in my personal laptop so that i can manage the restaurant eventhough i’m at home.
my question is :
1. which kind of database should i use? because i need to retrieve the data quickly.
2. where should i store the database? in both of computer for each restaurant? if yes, how can i access the data if i’m at home?
can you give me your opinion?
Web application is more likely to solve your problem but if you still want to have a desktop application you can buy an hosting for a database and connect to it. IF this will be costly and you wont have internet access just use an accessdb with your application.Put the application and the database file in a usb drive and put it to any computer you want. The exe files may stay the same but you should move the database file to get the updated data in different locations.