I don't know whether this is a DBMan question or a DBMan-SQL question so I'll post the in both forums.

We have purchased DBMan_SQL, now ...

We have a strange and unforeseen problem here. Our operations people have never run a MySQL database and have real big security concerns about allowing it to run on our servers.

Do you know of a way to mitigate this concern?

I fear that if I must use MySQL they are going to prohibit the DBMan-SQL application, that I've modified, from running. They do state that they will allow the CGI to run against a DBM file. I am not a Perl person and I do not know what a DBM file is.

Is there a way for the DBMan-SQL or DBMan flatfile app to be modified to run against a DBM file?

The operations people don't really understand Perl either, however, they tell me anyone that understands Perl will understand what a DBM is.

Our database, be it flat file or relational database, should never exceed 20MB. With records that have been cleaned up right now a full load is about 8MB.

Also, since I began using the DBMan-SQL version I have lost two features that I believed were nice. First, my result data is no longer sorted properly, and I have loss the search value highlighting. This is occurring even though I use, for the most part, the same html.pl that I use against the flat file database. The
only thing in the html.pl file that changed is "ascend" was changed to "asc".

Thanks.