>>>Just got my latest version of PC Mag that rated the best 50 products of 1996.
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>>>MS Access and Lotus Approach won for databases. That was gall enough to start. But then to say that MS Acess was the "most powerful database on the market" was absurd.
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>>>Why is it that VFP never gets its due in the PC Journals. Is it that MS doesn't want to put any bad press on Access and thus taint MS Office?
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>>>Clearly VFP is more flexible, faster, and
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>>Before we all get in a huff again over this Access vs VFP stuff, step back and look at the article again.....it was for END USER desktop databses. VFP is not in that catagory. I think we'l all agree that it is a developer tool.
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>Yes the article said most powerful end user database but the category was databases. Anyway why can't VFP be an end user database. With the wizards, it is just as easy to set something simple up as in Access and while its report generator may be a little behind it is still pretty easy to use, especially with the wizards.
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>Something about using the words most powerful in combination with Access just doesn't seem right.
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>IMHO

i assume that the sentence 'access is NOT the most powerful...' isn't what you had in mind...