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As a rule of thumb you want a relational database. They're more powerful and more flexible than flat file databases and are pretty standard these days. For a quick overview of the differences, check out this article at How Stuff Works: http://www.howstuffworks.com/question599.htm Modern commercial fundraising databases are more than likely to be
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I'd like to underscore Wenkai Tai's suggestion that you use the "Bcc" line when you address a message to people who are strangers to each other. It drives me nuts when people send a message to a large number of recipients, and include all of the email addresses in the "To:" line. There are three problems with this: 1. An email with 80 addresses
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Phil, you asked about front ends for MySQL. Check out phpMyAdmin , a really handy PHP application for administering a MySQL server. I use it all the time when I develop MySQL sites. I develop in Microsoft Access, too, but I've never thought to build a database in Access before porting it to MySQL. It seems to me that the main thing you'd gain