I am developing a quiz software in Adobe Flash cs5.5. So the software could use a database for displaying questions and keeping scores. I am planning to develop it as normal application (Visual Basic like) that can retrieve questions and update scores.
I searched everywhere, but I couldn't. I could see only connecting to server side database using PHP and MYSQL. My application is a stand alone one. I think there is some way to connect a database using ActionScript 3.0. So how can I connect to flash cs5.5 with any kind of database?
I'd recommend you to use XML instead of a SGDB. It seems to be a simple app, anyone can manage a well written XML file.
If you really need to have some content manager upon this data, you could build something integrated with a database and generate the XML based on your database.