# Access or excel instead of mysql?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-or-excel-instead-of-mysql/209939>\
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**Created:** [December 13, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-or-excel-instead-of-mysql/209939 "2006-12-13T14:26:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![mxdirector](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mxdirector](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mxdirector)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-or-excel-instead-of-mysql/209939/1 "2006-12-13T14:26:04Z")

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i am relativly new to server side applications. and i was having a disscusion with my father, and we thought, why do you need mysql, would another program work.

so can you? to create a internet database can yu just use excel?