On 24 Oct 2002 at 17:07, Raigo Lukk wrote:

> >
> >
> >driver (also commercial) should work well. Now a comment about Access, it's
> >probably one of the worst ways to access a C/S database, unless your really really
> >careful and make sure that all Queries are database native mode.
> >
>
> I am not a big fan of Access either. This project started with a need to
> upgrade (add new features to) an existing application. The application
> is relatively small and now only used by 4 simultaneus users. Still I
> suggested to upsize database to SQL (Firebird) and build a new client in
> Delphi. This was OK, however at the moment they liked about Access that
> they can build new reports by themselves and modify existing reports. So
> I thought for that kind of reports I could sep up also an Access project
> linked to Firebird. Is there any good (and free) report builder what
> could be used instead?

Not sure about free report builders, if your going to use Delphi, there used to be a
report builder built in, so maybe you can use that, other then that, I usually use
Crystal Reports, but it's commercial.