On Aug 26, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Bryan Seitz wrote:
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 03:15:43PM -0400, Christopher Klein wrote:
There was no slam on Harry at all Thane. It's not just simply
learning
simple tasks. Sure anyone can learn how to type a paragraph in word.
However, learning Access in an MIS/CIS program is quite
important. Not all
corporations run SQL. The company I'm at with now has
approximately 1500
employees at our site, and around 6k worldwide. Decent sized
company but
every department within the organization has these access
databases...it's a
nightmare.
It's retarded. Let's take excel and strap on some DB features
without proper
locking yeah!!!! Any company using access should be shot, it's not
a database it's
a giant piece of crap.
Don't totally agree with this... At work lately I've been making some
office frontends using MyODBC to hook into our MySQL server. For
people doing lots of data entry, it provides easier interface (more
responsive, etc) than even an elaborate AJAX interface I don't have
time to write and test on all different browsers etc. Also gives
people easier access to the raw Mysql tables and designing queries.
We use access more as a supplement to our existing databases than a
standalone.
Though honestly, from what I've seen in the past month or so of
access--it's got some neato abilities and shouldn't *totally* be
sneered at.
Scott
