I will second and third that motion! I had a two week course to learn Access for a project I once worked on. I ended up using an Oracle database instead but that's another story. Anyway, Access is not a user friendly program. It was designed for developers to create very cool databases. Legacy is one of those very cool databases.
Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MS Access To those considering Legacy and MS Access..... As one who works with Access databases for my own applications (and as the Legacy programming staff will agree with) Access is NOT an application you learn overnight reading "The Idiot's Guide to Access" or such self help aids. It does have a rather steep learning curve unless you have programming experience. (I'm a retired 40 yr IT professional Systems Analyst/Sr Programmer). I had several days of formal training in Beginning and Intermediate Access and know enough to make my way around in simple to moderate Access applications. As is quite obvious from the ease of use displayed in Legacy, Access in the hands of veteran Access programmers, can be made to LOOK easy. I've looked at the underlying tables, inquiries etc in Legacy and they range from the fairly simple to QUITE complex! Unless you REALLY know what you're doing, or REALLY want to screw up your Legacy files.......let sleeping dogs lie and don't even think about messing around with it!! gc <snip> Sounds like there's a high learning curve with Access, so it's not for me. Thank you for the advice, Peggy Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
