[AccessD] Access ADP file format

[Stuart McLachlan]

On 24 Mar 2023 at 7:34, Arthur Fuller wrote:

> I digress. Why did the Access team abandon the ADP file format?
> 
 A clue here:
https://codekabinett.com/rdumps.php?Lang=2&targetDoc=access-adp-history

Finally, with Access 2013, Microsoft discontinued ADPs and removed support for 
them from Access.
I do not have any inside information on the reasoning and the process behind this 
decision. From my outside point of view, I guess the rationale was a combination of 
three things.
*   The adoption of ADPs was not as strong as Microsoft had hoped. Mainly due 
    to the flaws and problems outlined above.
*   The pressure of keeping up with the pretty fast SQL-Server development was 
    probably pretty intense for the Access-Team.
*   The OleDb technology was deprecated and support for it was to be 
    discontinued. This would have removed the very basis ADPs were built on.