Try doing the following in Access:

From a table of 400,000+ records, create 10 cursors which will result in 50-100 records each. Then LEFT JOIN those cursors to another cursor and throw the result set into an array. Then do all the above 10-20 times (using different keys), summing the result sets into the array. The create a cursor from the final array and bind it to a grid. This process must run in under 3 seconds.

After you have tried this in Access, let me know what happened - if you are still breathing.


>I am primarily creating database applications.
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>I thought that VB would have close ties to Access and therefore be fairly strong in the database arena.
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>What about Access itself? Why is Access not a viable alternative for serious database development?