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Re: Getting inside an .accdb file

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Tony Toews spoke:
> >Indeed - and the original plonker who wrote the Access app (and charged a 
> >pretty penny for it, I might add) needed a good whack with a clue-stick.
> >Basically a colletion of flat tables, absolutely no normalisation (e.g. a 
> >Customers table with a completely new record duplicating name address 
> >etc. for every additional contact at that customer)
> >and worse, table names with spaces and table names like "11/ 09/11"
> 
> Oooyyy!   I'm not sure why I charge such reasonable prices.

Nothing personal - I've developed lots of apps using Access - but only as a 
back-end database engine with a separate VB Executable front-end.

It is perfect for small databases with limited users and record counts, and 
using a separate .exe front end the user doesn't have to have Access 
installed on every desktop.

But we also use other RDBMS's, MySQL, SQL-Server etc. and migrating data from 
an Access file with spaces all over the place is a pain in the bum, to be 
honest.

-- 
Rob Pearson

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Getting inside an .accdb file R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-11-17 09:48 +0000
  Re: Getting inside an .accdb file H-Man <Spam@bites.fs> - 2011-11-17 14:37 -0700
    Re: Getting inside an .accdb file H-Man <Spam@bites.fs> - 2011-11-17 16:23 -0700
      Re: Getting inside an .accdb file R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-11-18 09:46 +0000
        Re: Getting inside an .accdb file Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2011-11-18 12:10 -0700
  Re: Getting inside an .accdb file Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2011-11-17 16:08 -0700
    Re: Getting inside an .accdb file R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-11-18 09:46 +0000
      Re: Getting inside an .accdb file Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2011-11-18 12:09 -0700
        Re: Getting inside an .accdb file R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-11-19 10:29 +0000
          Re: Getting inside an .accdb file Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2011-11-21 13:05 -0700
            Re: Getting inside an .accdb file R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-11-23 18:10 +0000
              Re: Getting inside an .accdb file ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-11-23 15:10 -0600
              Re: Getting inside an .accdb file Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2011-11-24 17:12 -0700
        Re: Getting inside an .accdb file Jason Keats <jkeats@melbpcDeleteThis.org.au> - 2011-11-19 22:23 +1100
          Re: Getting inside an .accdb file R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-11-20 12:30 +0000

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