Microsoft Access must die
February 4th, 2008Aaarrgghh … why do people insist on using Microsoft Access to make corporate databases??
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Aaarrgghh … why do people insist on using Microsoft Access to make corporate databases??
February 4th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Because it’s so accessable.
I’ve seen it so many times at my old job. Someone gets asked to make something so they can track “Only one or two people will use it”. 6 months later, there’s 10 people using it, and it’s tracking a bunch of things. another 12 months later and they’re running multi million dollar projects out of this thing and Access is losing data left right and centre.
February 5th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Access is fine… but people have to remember to SCALE IT UP when the project gets too big. You can’t run an Access database alone for something that 20 or 30 people are using all day long. You need to scale it up to run the back-end on SQL Server or something comparable… but Access is perfectly fine for the front-end, even on large projects.
February 7th, 2008 at 12:23 am
PostgreSQL FTW !