[AccessD] Friday/weekend scaring reading: Wikipedia and JET

Dan Waters dwaters at usinternet.com
Fri Feb 15 10:49:30 CST 2008


Gustav,

I think you could modify the Wikipedia entry to be correct!

Dan

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 3:44 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Friday/weekend scaring reading: Wikipedia and JET

Hi all - or perhaps indeed our JET specialist, Jim Dettman

Here is a scaring example that not everything in Wikipidia is to be trusted.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Jet_Database_Engine 

That entry is so full of confusing, mixed up and misleading facts and
incorrect version info that a major rewrite is requested. (My time doesn't
allow, sorry).
And why everything is written in preteritum and not presens as if JET has
passed away, I don't know.

For example, it fools around from paragraph one with JET, SQL Server and SQL
Server Compact Edition - and states that SQL was introduced in "later
versions".
And if you stand reading through this mess, at the end the author claims
transactions to be introduced in JET version 4.0.

Much can be said about JET but it certainly deserves a more trustworthy
description.

/gustav


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