Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 19, 2003 03:04 AM
I am an Access developer, and have made my living as such for quite awhile.
There are many Pro's and Con's to Access. Much of what has been said here is absolutely true.
That being said...One thing Access has that I have yet to see any other product do as well is it's lightning fast developemtnt times.
This is both good and bad, as it can lead to some really silly stuff. But at the same time, in my case, I can produce OLAP tables/ analyse large chunks of data, and put together VB looking somewhat secure front-ends faster than any other developer using any other tool.
I do not do enterprise-wide applications, cause my toolset is not designed for it.
If you need it done quick and dirty, don't want to spend and arm and a leg, and it's not an enterprise application. MS access coupled with and MS SQL server has no match as far as developement speed, and ease of use.
I am heartened to see some of these opensource projects beginning to venture into this workspace however. And would be very excited to see another viable option that allows me to do what I do now with an opensource license.
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Re:vb and access
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 19, 2003 03:04 AMThere are many Pro's and Con's to Access. Much of what has been said here is absolutely true.
That being said...One thing Access has that I have yet to see any other product do as well is it's lightning fast developemtnt times.
This is both good and bad, as it can lead to some really silly stuff. But at the same time, in my case, I can produce OLAP tables/ analyse large chunks of data, and put together VB looking somewhat secure front-ends faster than any other developer using any other tool.
I do not do enterprise-wide applications, cause my toolset is not designed for it.
If you need it done quick and dirty, don't want to spend and arm and a leg, and it's not an enterprise application. MS access coupled with and MS SQL server has no match as far as developement speed, and ease of use.
I am heartened to see some of these opensource projects beginning to venture into this workspace however. And would be very excited to see another viable option that allows me to do what I do now with an opensource license.
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