Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Mon May 3 11:53:51 CDT 2004
Avoid FileMaker at all costs. One of the things that users and so-called "developers" like is that it will store multiple values in a field, completely violating normalization. Of course, that makes it fairly useless for data analysis, so the data gets dumped to Access, where it has to be seriously massaged before you can really do anything with it. Trust me, you don't want to do that! I finally managed to wean a former employer off FileMaker (they had started with Macs), but I forever heard "FileMaker would let us do that", which made me grit my teeth and try not to reach for the nearest blunt object. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Dan Waters [mailto:dwaters at usinternet.com] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 6:37 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