Re: Microsoft Access
On Friday 03 December 2004 04:00, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thursday 02 December 2004 3:14 pm, William Ballard wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:08:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > I was wondering the same thing as I was driving around today. Seems
> > > like (from firsthand experience) a great way to lose a lot of data
>
> if
>
> > > the slightest thing goes wrong...
> >
> > You wouldn't use it for a 3-tiered or web app or anything like that.
> > But for little < 10,000 record lists that also need relational
> > integrity, a server process is overkill. I manage my Video collection
> > using my little Access workalike program. Relational integrity is the
> > main feature.
>
> You falsely assume Access maintains relational integrity in the first
> place, when in reality, Access is a daily cause of data loss every
> place I've ever seen it used.
>
> Access is working, quality software, but only if the goal is to cause
> more data loss and aggrivation in a single workplace than all the worm
> and virus attacks combined (my experience with Access at three
> different companies, a government agency (Oregon Zoo), and a public
> school district). That being said, they threw the kid that wrote Code
> Red in jail, let's do something about those Access bastards.
have rather bad experiences with microsoft access. loss of data and the like.
like the man said before: 'microsoft is only good at what they stole from
other people'. they really are mf...bastards.
steef
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