views on DB Linking

hiya,

can i have your views on linking databases, Access of course.. im using SQL but for clients they may be using Access.

i have my login manager and am intergrating it into the Forum,

is it best to just have them both in the same Database or linking ok.

im just wondering regarding the hosting, IE. how much more processing and ram etc.

a lot more, or do hosts not really like this.

any views at all are welcome.

you can find out more details about the intergration here with a demo link

http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=1 2519&PN=1

cheers,

the application is seperate entirely,

the forum/login manager update each other using the User_code(s) as the identifier.

so they are really 2 different apps, the cookie checks the UserCode, and as both db are the same they have the same users and userCodes (validation).

all ive been doing is MODing the forum to use update/delete/INSERT INTO queries.

didn't want to use a seperate DB Connection so thats why i thought about linking/ in the same database.

SQL version is fine as you just need different table names, and as SQL goes its cabable of both in a DB.