Dan Waters
dwaters at usinternet.com
Mon May 3 10:59:48 CDT 2004
Yup - Biased. I caught the 'Can't export from forms and reports' too. They did have several things wrong and should have done some fact checking with an experience Access developer. And they made things sound worse than they are. For example: A 2K or XP db can auto-compact when a user closes, but the auto-compact only happens to the last user! They did acknowledge that FM does not have the equivalent of a run-time version. Dan -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of DWUTKA at marlow.com Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:26 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Access vs. Filemaker Comparison Reference? VERY biased. Where did they get the '2000 character limit per record' limitation? I've never heard of that one! Several issues with the writer's understanding of what they are talking about. 'One big drawback in Access is that exporting data from forms and reports does not work very well. Only exports from Tables and Queries work all the time'. LOL If you want a report or form formatted the same way, then yes, it can get goofy. But the data is all there. I think MS would have a LOT of people yelling at them if you couldn't export data from a report! Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Tesiny, Ed Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 9:51 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] Access vs. Filemaker Comparison Reference? This is probably a very biased review but for what it's worth see http://www.filemaker.com/downloads/pdf/fm_access_comparison.pdf Ed Tesiny EdTesiny at oasas.state.ny.us -----Original Message----- From: Dan Waters [mailto:dwaters at usinternet.com] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:37 AM To: Database Advisors Subject: [AccessD] Access vs. Filemaker Comparison Reference? Hello to all! I may have an opportunity to work on a project where the company has part of what they need already done with a Filemaker database. Where could I find a comparison between the two databases? Thanks! Dan Waters ProMation Systems -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com