Darryl Collins
darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au
Thu Jan 15 20:00:54 CST 2015
Yes... I see this all the time, everywhere. You go via the official IT path and put in an initial "What about we try this" type of request request - the usual response is 1: it is too pissy and bespoke for real IT folks to deal with - they refuse to do it outright. Only work on 'real' projects. 2: They will do it, but it will take 10 months and cost $XXX,000+, plus ongoing maint fees. 3: The requestor has to fill out a detailed 40 page scope document for every darn change and get several different folks to sign off on it. 4: They won't build it in Access, has to be on a real platform, which is fine, but the user loses all flexibility and control and cannot customise it in anyway. 99% percent of the time folks go "WTF! - I'll do it myself" (or hire someone like me or you to do it for them). And they do - all the time. I know of whole essential systems of Access Databases and even Excel solutions that are used daily in major corps that are not approved or even officially exist. But it was the only way the users could get the job done. Cheers DC -----Original Message----- From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Murphy Sent: Friday, 16 January 2015 6:06 AM To: 'Discussion concerning MS SQL Server' Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] DB-Engines list of top 10 databases Access does not surprise me at all. If you go into any large organization you will find many Access applications in daily use that were created by the employees who had a need that couldn't be met by the enterprise system. -----Original Message----- From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 10:30 AM To: Discussion concerning MS SQL Server Subject: [dba-SQLServer] DB-Engines list of top 10 databases *Top 10 database management systems, ranked on popularity, Nov 2014. Source: DB-Engines <http://db-engines.com/en/ranking>* 1 *Oracle* 2 *MySQL* 3 *Microsoft SQL Server* 4 *PostgreSQL* 5 *MongoDB* 6 *IBM DB2* 7 *Microsoft Access* 8 *SQLite* 9 *Cassandra* 10 *Sybase ASE* A few things surprised me: that MySQL is ahead of SQL Server; that Mongo has become so popular so quickly, and that Access is still in the Top 10. -- Arthur _______________________________________________ dba-SQLServer mailing list dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-SQLServer mailing list dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver http://www.databaseadvisors.com