help with databases and windows

[Sam3]

Listen to Seacrest. Use the LAMP stack minus the 'L' (Linux)

That's sad that the politics in your situation dicate moving from a rock-solid UNIX platform to Win2k3. More and more companies are adding Linux boxes to their server stable, not Windows.

Oh, by using PHPMyAdmin, you get a decent web-based graphical front end to MySQL.