my goodness. I don't usually do the hostess thing, but since Erika is apparently still slacking or sulking over a football pool or something (I'm kidding I'm kidding don't killl me!) then I Guess it's up to me.
Here. Fresh cranberry lemonseed muffins. This is apparently some esoteric welcoming ritual :P Dana On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:29:02 -0000, Paul Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin said: > > > Yes. It's been pretty well known for years. There are so many problems > with what they're doing it makes the mind reel. > > -Kevin > > Thanks for that Kevin. This is truly revelation for me. I guess the next > thing people are gonna tell me is that their system is written in VB 5 or > below... > > Dana said: > > Now, I am not an Access user but SQL Server has a transaction log, doesn't > Access? > > Dana, > > Access is designed to be a single user desktop database. It is not designed > for transactional security and there is no logging process... > > The article in the link I originally posted was worried about the paper > trail being missing in order to double check the vote. Ordinarily, no paper > trail wouldn't concern me if there was a decent electronic audit trail like > you get with enterprise level databases but with Access, you have nothing. > > Even more concerning is that the best security you are going get with Access > is the standard MS Office password protection on the DB file and that is not > hard to break if indeed a password has been set at all. There are no such > things as users or roles in an Access database. > > It seems to me that a system that is tracking the votes of an election to > effectively elect the leader of the western world (lets face it, the US is > so powerful, the presidency has an effect on all western countries) should > not be getting off the designers whiteboards if they choose MS Access except > where they are prototyping a design in a testbed environment to prove > concepts and later apply them to their chosen Enterprise DB system... > > I certainly wouldn't expect to see Access in a production environment as > critical as voting for the leader of the presidency of the US. > > Now, you mentioned muffins?!? > > Paul > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:135357 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
