On Sep 26, 2006, at 0:20, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Correct. One area that I haven't had a "problem" yet with, is
Access....no one
is using it that I've dealt with. I'd like to hear from someone who
has and
what they did to replace Access and if so, did they use Base or
something
else that will work with OO?
Fred
Access is a real problem because so many people just cobble something up
using it and then they are stuck because it is not easy to convert
their database
to something that other databases can import and use easily.
The company I work for now purchased the designs and data for a unit
that we had
manufactured by the company I used to work for. Part of the stuff we
got was an export
from their parts database. The export was not good and we imported it
into a simple
Filemaker database as that is what the Boss had and uses. I have been
working on
the data for the last few years as time permitted (much less than I
would have liked)
to flesh out and correct and update the data.
I had a database project in mind at the last company. The boss there
would not even
consider anything that did not run on MS Windows. He offered Access. I
declined and
suggested MySQL. I did not do the project since they would not give me
any rights to
the database scheme, etc. even though I would be doing after hours on
my own time.
In researching databases, the nicest thing anyone ever said about
Access was the
left handed compliment by a Microsoft employee who said that it came
for free with
Office, which it did at the time.
Ross
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