Daniel Pineault Post author Jat 7:00 amĭataVerse is far from innovative.If they actually knew what “Access” was, they could be Access’ best sales force. Apparently the SQL Server team looks at the engine popularity list and is afraid that “Access” is a competitor when it is not. The latest rumor they spread was when MS cancelled Access Web Apps. So since Jet was dead, the SQL Server team told everyone who would listen that “Access” was dead. The earlier rumor was because MS decided to ship a desktop version of SQL Server “in the box” and the later was because the Access team copied Jet (which had been managed by the SQL server team) and made it into ACE. They were the source of the “Access is dead. Many times because of the bad press spread by the SQL Server development team. Instead, experienced developers turn up their nose at Access and think of it as a toy. It is such a simple way to create an application that even if it isn’t the end result, development teams should be using it as a modeling tool. Access should be front and center as a FE to SQL Server. It is an asterisk in most versions of O365 that include it. I would feel ever so much better about MS’ commitment to Access as a life form if they would stop ignoring it in their marketing. You’d think by now MS would have learned to test Access thoroughly when making these types of changes since it seems to be the canary in the coal mine. I think that a large part of the breakage is caused by changes to Windows and the shared Office libraries and relate to security. New features that are buggy aren’t going to send my world crashing down around me but breaking existing features causes great pain for me and all of you. It keeps the children happy but not the people who depend on Access to run their business. So, much as I would love to see some new controls and functionality that makes ODBC work over the internet almost as well as it works over a LAN, I want MS to think very carefully about what they actually change and to stop making changes just for the sake of change. I appreciate that MS has an insurmountable problem in that they are trying to support an extreme variation in OS, Hardware, networks, RDBMS, and Access itself and so it’s really hard to test every single combination of the various moving parts. In recent years (mostly since the push to O365), MS has inserted some HUGE bugs causing considerable problems to my clients and to the reputation of Access. Large numbers of companies depend on Access to run their businesses. Well folks, Access just isn’t a RDBMS and it doesn’t deserve at least that part of the bad press.Īccess is a mature product and shouldn’t have lots of updates no matter how you and I feel about it. You can tell because they denigrate “Access” as they compare it to a different RDBMS. When people complain about the shortcomings of “Access”, they are 99.9% complaining about Jet and ACE. Access is an application development platform. For those looking at the database engine rankings – I hope you realize that “Access” isn’t a database engine.
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