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Expertise
Database installation, analysis & design and programming questions.

Experience
Have done application programming as well as some installation and administration mostly with MySQL for web servers and site development and also with IMS and DB2 on legacy systems in the past.

Education/Credentials
MS in computer science.

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Topic: Database Programming

Expert: Marty Landman
Date: 8/7/2007
Subject: data security

Question
I want to know about ; how we can secure our data base file, so that anybody can't open it. Can we save our data base file in a different file format ?

Answer
There are two basic things you can do which I am familiar with.

First, have an id and password set up in order to access the database, and take care to choose ones that would not be easy to guess.

Second, if the data is particularly sensitive then it is totally possible to encrypt the database. This can be done in Perl, PHP - any language you want to use probably.

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Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc.
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