RE: Re: Snort and M$ Access?????

[Brad Plies <plies () bulliondirect com>]

True, however linked tables don't store the foreign data locally.
So the MDB file will not grow to that size.  However, should you
have a large table of data, and try to literally open the table..
well, you're in for a treat.

> Hi Brad,
>
> I don't know if this has been mentioned previously, but MS Access has a
> limit for access mdb files to 1GB.  From my prior experience using
> Access to log firewall data, your Access file will hit that limit very
> quickly (in a couple days)....
>
> I hope this helps in some way,
> Francis
>
> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  From: Brad Plies [mailto:plies () bulliondirect com]
> >  Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:16 PM
> >  To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> >  Subject: [Snort-users] Re: Snort and M$ Access?????
> >
> >
> >  1.  On the Win machine, install MySQL's MyODBC driver.
> >  As an admin, setup an ODBC data source to your MySQL
> >  database on the Linux machine.
> >
> >  2. Setup a database user account that has read-only access.
> >
> >  3. Have MS Access link tables with through the ODBC datasource.
> >
> >  4. Done.  Build you're own Access queries to see what you
> >  want and to build custom reports.
> >
> >  5. As a security concern, make sure that the connection
> >  between the Win & Linux machines is secured somehow.  And
> >  connecting this way will hog 1 database connection.
> >
> >  >Anyway, what I really need to know is, does there exist
> >  some tool that
> >  >will allow for "easy" (meaning little work for me, and I
> >  don't care how
> >  >much work for others) migration/transport of the mysql
> >  database info
> >  >from my Linux machine to their Win2K box?  If so, does
> >  there exist a
> >  >tool to pull that info back out in a usable format - something
> >  >comparable to ACID or SnortSnarf?
> >
> >
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