[AccessD] Interesting Access article

[Daniel Waters]

I agree.  MS has slightly reduced Access' ability to be used as a developer tool, and has not improved the Access IDE since about 2003, but I have read that macros were improved (although I don't use macros anyway).  So, they do want regular people to be able to use Access, but are trying to deemphasize Access as a development platform.  

Windows Forms was initially released in 2002 - about the same time MS stopped improving Access for developers.  I think that's probably not a coincidence.

Dan 

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From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms via AccessD
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re: "I also took exception to some of the author's other statements in that 
article.  As one example, "Microsoft has made more than one attempt to 
terminate it."  I do not believe that is true.
Regards
Steve"
Totally agree. I mean what would stop them from terminating Access ?It's not like there is a huge set of user-groups out there.If MSFT wanted to terminate it, then they could easily do that.
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>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:
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>>  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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