[AccessD] Interesting Access article

[Bill Benson]

Really...? DOS was pretty good.

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 1:09 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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