Coldfusion and MS Access Reports

I think most equevalint for access on the web is mysql.

You are better off migrating your access reports to mysql and then run your queries online.

Here's a site that will help you with the process:

http://www.howtodothings.com/computers/a3744-how-to-convert-access-to-mysql.html

Can Mysql do extensive formatting and grouping, e.g. if x=1 display *** else display ###

You can use case to do some of the formatting within the SQL otherwise you may want to handle the formatting via coldfusion conditional tags.

CASE 
WHEN x = 1 THEN SELECT '***';
ELSE SELECT '###';
END CASE;

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MySQL is a database - it just stores data. What you do with it is up to you. It's not like Access, where you have a Forms designer, a Report designer, a Query designer, etc etc all wrapped up in one package. MySQL just stores your data.

LSMConsulting, you are right MySQL just stores data, but everything you do in MS Access on
you local machine can be done on the web with the help of MySQL to hold your DB and manage it
and with php to run your queries and html to design the interface!

Now if there is a tool that would do the transfer of the DB and quries and the design all at once, that
I'm not sure ther is, but you can do them each one apart!

I'm fully aware of what MySQL does, and what Access is capable of doing. The author asked:

"is there any way to run ms acces function/module from Coldfusion web application"

There seemed to be some confusion regarding this, and my comments were intended to convey that MySQL is NOT Access, and cannot "format" information in any meaningful way. It's not a reporting engine, and cannot export data in any formatted method. You can QUERY the MySQL database and then format your resultant data using PHP, ASP.NET or any of a dozen other web-based languages, but MySQL can't do this. It simply stored data, and works with data (through STored Procedures and such) - but it cannot build and present output in a report format.

There are also plenty of Access to MySQL converters out there. I use several tools to do this, but the ones at Intelligent Converters (http://www.convert-in.com/) are very low-priced and do a great job.

Thanks for all you responds.
My problem is not data part. we have many reports created in Access with certain format, it seems now I need to find a reporting tool to replace it since we cannot use Access with Web for reporting. what is the best replacement? Thanks