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>>>>>Access? What a joke. You could pull a guy off a bus and he could do Access.
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>>>>Access had some merit. The report writer was pretty good. Actually, the SSRS designer was derived from Access.
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>>>>One of the biggest issues with Access was how badly people abused it.
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>>>Microsoft has mainly itself to blame for that. They marketed Access as a tool power users could use to build real applications. What we saw is that there is a big difference between professional developers and power users. Power users may be better than us at identifying necessary features but when it comes to coding those features, forget it.
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>>I always thought power users number 1 tool on databases is Excel ....
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>I see the smiley but that has been completely true in my experience. I couldn't even begin to estimate how much time I have spent sucking Excel data into DBFs.

Argh, Exccel is my number one data gathering tool. I even create tricky Excel files to hand them over for input. Customers wishes ...