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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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>Wasn't dBASE (back in the CP/M and DOS days) originally touted as a "power user" tool?

Yes, as was FoxBase and even the first versions of FoxPro. It wasn't really until the move to Visual FoxPro that the marketing was aimed pretty much only at developers.

Tamar