Re: MS Access

From	Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject	Re: MS Access
Date	2024-08-08 13:21 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<v92d7s$3tl9o$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 08/08/2024 12:19, Philip Herlihy wrote:
> In article <v90pqf$3cs1v$2@dont-email.me>, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote...
>>
>> Calling Access “one of Microsoft’s greatest achievements” ... not the kind
>> of “praise” they would find flattering, I think ...
>>
>>
> 
> I think that would depend on which team you ask!
> 

Well, it is obviously behind Excel, Windows OS, Outlook, etc.

But..., In the past things were different, we didn't have 1001 different 
tools to persist data in a formatted way. Big databases Oracle, Sybase 
were slow, and you probably had to go through a tortuous DB admin 
process, to get it setup, and for every schema change.

MS access was just there, you could knock up a DB, squirt shitloads of 
data into it really quickly. It used to lock up randomly, but on the 
whole it was OK. In code, it was just a SQL DB, you could examine data 
outside the app. It did what we wanted. I think people forget how shit 
the world used to be. Microsoft even modified SQL Server to let it run 
in app, like Access, because it was so useful.

Now we have sqlite there isn't much point, but it was good back in the day.

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