[AccessD] Regarding multi-value field, from a reader

Charlotte Foust charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 10:53:30 CDT 2012


Because it would confuse the end users.  Scary!

Charlotte

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, what I don't get is this -- Access actually does all the
> normalization for these fields internally. If they can do that, why not
> just push it to the interface and do it all the way? Why hide it?
>
> Susan H.
>
>
>
>  Yeah, those sort of features remind me of junk food.  The worse it is for
>> you, the more folks seem to like to over indulge.  In Excel for example the
>> 'feature' of merged cells is used (and promoted) widely as being a
>> wonderful thing, but can cause you enormous grief and pain if used without
>> due care and consideration.  Of course, no one tells the users that.  They
>> just merge away like buggery.
>>
>> I can think of many other examples as well...  So much so that I like to
>> use the term (ab)user rather than user with referring to some of my more
>> troublesome employees of my clients.  Hehe.
>>
>>
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