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From: DanWeaver <danofwea...@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: ASP.Net Membership & Roles Using MySQL- Basics Needed.
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:57:26 -0700 (PDT)
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A few hard hours later and I am very frustrated- there seems to be
very little support for MySQL regarding this seemingly basicish task-
is it the case that to use MySQL in this scenario you have to be a
hardcore ASP/SQL/general programmer? I cannot find a single video that
illustrates anything like this concept nor any straigtforward,
complete, relatively up to date guidelines. From an outsiders point of
view it seems like the guys at MySQL have done all the hard work
designing the right stuff- but insufficient support exists to
encourage MySQLs use in this manner.
I want to manage users and roles and get some information such as age
group on a shared server preferably using MySQL. I have now lost 2
days looking in vain through very technical and complicated half-
descriptions of how to build an operating system on a spacestation
from scratch- I am only trying to build a hello world roles and
membership on a shared MySQL server, its like reading Microsoft help
files... Is it really that hard?