MySQL Building User Interfaces

For Access Converts Only: Daemons and Services

MS SQL Server administrators will be familiar with the concept of a service, because MS SQL Server runs as a service under Windows (and so does the Windows version of MySQL). However, if you have used only Access, a bit of explanation will help you better understand MySQL. Use MS SQL Server as an example. In Access, you directly open the *.mdb file, which is where the data (among other things) is stored. Call that “shared file mode,” because multiple users can open and read data simultaneously from the same *.mdb file. Unlike in Access, when you use MS SQL Server, you don’t directly access the file that holds the data. In MS SQL Server, the data files have the .mdf extension, but when you request ...