I found a discussion over on the VBPJ discussion area quite comical, especially after peoples comments here about FPA. To wit:

"I mainly read it for the ads, to see what's new from the software
vendors. I get my practical advice more and more from Access-VB-SQL Advisor Magazine, sorry. If readers want to read pages of stuff about how to break into the VB compiler, how to do all manner of amazing things with XML, or how to get completely bogged down in utterly complex solutions, fine, but it's not my real world, where I have to support and write applications for an extremely large and extremely wealthy organisation, where not complexity, but simplicity, is the mantra we work by. The archive files on the VB CD-ROM are often of more interest now than they ever were, because go back a couple
or three years and they were talking the language (and offering the advice) that we now can actually use, now that our hardware and mindsets have caught up. Accuse me of being a fuddy-duddy, ..."


Followed up by a direct comparision of VBPJ to Advisor Access/VB:

"Advisor Magazine manages it. The Feb issue contains a useful article about using ADO disconnected recordsets to populate a TreeView. February's VBPJ included the following interesting, but inapposite articles:

Black Belt Programming: Pool Database Connections
Call Function Pointers
COMponent Builder: Add Controls Dynamically
Implement Custom Code in DTS

Perhaps I'll return to these topics in two years' time, when maybe they'll be mainstream. In the meantime, I shall continue to read VBPJ for as long as my employer is willing to subscribe, but I shall also look to other magazines (all American, so that's something you can all be proud of) for tips and how-tos pertinent to what I actually do right now. We still use Visual Basic 5 - I have absolutely no control over that fact (in fact, it's our American parent which insists on not moving to VB6, but to go directly to VB7) - and we are now just moving away from Access/Jet 3.51 and DAO to Jet 4.0, Sql Server 7, ADO and RDS, though it can be a hard furrow to plough....."


So it seems that the niche for Advisor is for folks who work in companies that are 2-3 yrs behind in technology. If you work at a place where the CIO finally signed off on upgrading from FP 2.6 to VFP, Advisor is the place to be.

PF