>Another stupid question from the newest convert to n-tier development...
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>I'm doing some 'messing around' with SQL Server and Web Access (translation...in the early early learning phases), and have a question.
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>Much of the 'demo' code and apps I'm looking to study (like the lab files from Mastering Visual InterDev) says that it requires NT Server or NT Workstation. I have Win '98 with SQL Server 7 installed...if I simply install Personal Web Server, will that give me what I need 'for now' to start learning, or is there more to it than that?
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>TIA,
>Kevin

Hi Kevin,

Sure, PWS will let you get your feet wet starting out, particularly with learning to create ASP pages, and testing local COM objects, but after a while you will really want to get into IIS and MTS, and these things running on an NT server is what you will need.

As a matter of opinion, I started out using VI for creating data enabled web stuff like ASPs and the like...my advice is to get into the guts of the ASP stuff directly (even via notepad, although I like EditPlus2, myself), and avoid VI altogether. It's kind of a headache.

My $0.02,