Keith Wilby wrote:
"David W. Fenton" wrote in message
.89...

If your impression of Access comes from futzing with it for 10
minutes and from encountering kludged-together apps created by your
company receptionist, then you just haven't a clue what Access
offers, either as an application development platform or as a data
store (using its native Jet engine).

True - but N/A to moi!


I frequently have Oracle die-hards tell me (and more worryingly,
management)
that Access is a toy that will fall over when more than a couple of users
log on. I have yet to have any of them rise to the challenge of siting a
single example of a correctly set up, split application in Access that
isn't
stable under load. Mine are certainly stable and reliable, the only
problematic ones are set up by dabblers.

Therein lies its criminality g - it screams encouragement for dabblers
and barely offers anything for artisans except stupendous numbers of
mouse clicks!

Take for instance the number of versions it took before separating the
data from the "code" was a core feature by way of the provision of a
menu option to reattach a data .mdb!

None of the aforementioned
die-hards even know what a split Access application is.

Cheers, Frank.