MS Access and Outlook Connections

  Transferring data between MS Access and Outlook

Database Journal recently published a series of articles/how-to's on how to extract data from Microsoft Outlook and send that data into a Microsoft Access database (as well as the reverse).

From Database Journal:
- Working With Outlook from Access
- From Access to Outlook

The steps do require some programming skills, but I've tried these steps and they work quite well. Could be useful if you want to connect your Outlook Inbox with a custom-made CRM system, or if you wanted Outlook to be automatically updated with calendar or contact items from a database....

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Are Open Source Databases Gaining Steam?

  Several new data storage options could sap the market share of heavyweights Oracle and SQL Server

As a developer of databases using enterprise packages such as SQL Server, Oracle and (the once-upon-a-time open source) MySQL, I've seen databases claiming to be the death of behemoth databases. But with the inaugural get-together of the burgeoning NoSQL community as well as several of the largest websites using home-grown databases (Facebook and Amazon to name a few), I'm thinking this may just happen at some point.

Infoworld: Anti-database movement gains steam

Is this a good thing? Not sure. But I'm excited to see what happens and most importantly, how well these other tools will connect to my website!...

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