If you can use a simple spreadsheet, you can create a valuable and powerful business tool for managing your business's clients. A client database can be more than just a list of customers' names ...

MS Access is a milder version of the popular client/server database system SQL Server that is ideal for small businesses. However, if necessary, Access databases can be easily converted to SQL Server.

Here's how to make this possible. Recently, I was tasked to add a MySQL database GUI for a client and came up against an issue where the database server wasn’t properly configured to accept ...