[geeks] Access rant

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Kevin wrote:

> I f*ckin hate MS Access!!!

Believe me, I can relate.

> We just lost power to a few of our workstations here at work and
> since damn near every "enterprise ready" tax prep/write up/accounting
> package insists on using MS Access as a backend, some of our users
> lost data.

Does "enterprise ready" mean "as reliable as the Holodeck" these days?

> Why do developers love Access so damn much?  I would kill for a
> DB2/Oracle/mysql/postgress optional backend for this crap.

  1) Access is cheap
  2) Access talks ODBC
  3) You can do "software development" in BASIC.
  4) Access (and MS SQL) have a "variant" datatype so you don't have
     to be bothered with proper data design.
  5) The whole world runs Windows on x86.  Didn't you get that memo?

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