> What you say about clients being able to do their own reports etc. is
true,
> but in my experience, it also exposes the data too easily for the client
to
> muck around with....i.e. "oh hello...whats this table thing....ag...thats
> old data...I will just delete it"
>
> It happend to me some years back.....
>
> Jeremy
Hiding databases from Clients is, in my experience too, is an important
thing to do.
It's actually one of the reasons I always preferred "Native Drivers" ala
SQL-Links in the BDE, because it means that I didn't have to accept
responsibility for putting an ODBC or OLE-DB (what's it called now? oops
ADO) driver on a machine, and so allow 'Power' users screw with tables.
[ disclaimer: I also never tried too hard to lock out users by defining
secret passwords, or database roles ]
Of course these days it's one of the reasons I like CORBA -- no database
connectivity at all.
Kerry S
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Phil Scadden
> > Sent: Friday, 19 May 2000 09:40
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: [DUG]: Delphi v Access. (Was So what do people think of the
> > Corel/Inprise/Borland not thing?)
> >
> >
> > > > Very true. I know a frightening about VB without having a "real" VB
> > > simply because of MS Access. (Yes, Access sucks, but its still
> > far faster than
> > > Delphi or quick applications and its on everyones desktop so dont have
> > > installation hassles.
> > >
> > > This is not true the number of clients I come across with grotty
Access
> > > Apps and they have mixed
> > > Office versions (with and WO Access) and the want to make it
multiuser -
> > > they baulk when you tell them they have to upgrade all their
> > Office Software - esp if they are on
> >
> > Sorry, I meant its on every desktop in MY organization. I am
> > certainly not promoting
> > Access for external work. And by quick, I mean what can you
> > deliver if you have
> > at most 2-3 days for development? With competent users what you
> > produce in Access
> > can be also extended since they can make their own reports and
> > queries fairly easily.
> > In the same time period, what you produce in Delphi is far more closed
and
> > generally needs some kind of installation.
> >
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> > Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
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