Is a database needed on a local machine to use Dreamweaver 8?
To build dynamic pages utilizing database content, we recommend you have access to the database on your network or local machine. You can set up a different connection for run-time and design-time database connections. If you don’t have network access to your database, you can use an FTP connection, or a different database like Microsoft Access for the design-time connections. If using a different database, you need to make sure the database field names match the names in your production database.
