[AccessD] Interesting Access article

[Arthur Fuller]

I object. SQL Server as the best app ever built by MS. Word a close second.

On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 11:31 PM Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Stuart:
>
> Right on. Just one part of Access is a database and only one database
> though the application can connect dozens of different sources, a number of
> sources simultaneously. Check ADO connection that is built into ever
> Microsoft version of Windows since Win95(?).
>
> I think the Access MDB application was the best application that MS ever
> built and then didn't support.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "stuart" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <
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> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2019 6:27:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Interesting Access article
>
> He has missed the point entirely.
>
> Access is not a database!
>
> Access is a very powerful Rapid Application Development environment which
> can use its own
> native database format (Microsoft Jet) or any number of  robust  RDBMSs.
>
> The statement "These statistics almost certainly overstate the popularity
> of Access" is 100%
> wrong.   A number of those Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL segments of the
> pie chart will be
> using Access as an application FE.
>
> I've been building complex Access applications using SQL Server and MySQL
> as the
> database for years.
>
>
> On 31 Oct 2019 at 8:45, jack drawbridge wrote:
>
> > Just saw this discussed on a few forums.
> > Interesting article on Access's continued survival.
> > <https://medium.com/young-coder/microsoft-access-the-zombie-database-s
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Arthur