Im looking for help with free or inexpensive software that will suit my needs for a database that will integrate with my site where i can log in and put data into a database and customers or clients can log in to my site (customer area) and have access to view only the info i put into the database. any help would be great.

Just about any CMS or blogging tool can do that.

Was that enough of an answer, or do you need someone special. Like keeping track of customer accounts and orders?

can you recommend one?

no orders, what i have is customers that we work for doing unemployment and i want to log in to the database put information about the claims (info,won , lost) and the client can log in to customer area and see only the info for them.

Unlikely you are going to find something "off the shelf".

I found one, Thanks anyway!

And are you going to enlighten us? 'cos forums are all about solving problems and sharing solutions, even if you do solve it yourself.

It's a bit like chaos theory, your reply today may solve somebody else's problem in the future.

What did your chose?

I would recommend you : Joomla, Drupal or e-commerce.
They have a lots of plugins and options.

I found mdox