The problem with Access.

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Post #63,193 by static 11/16/02 5:52:49 AM Reply	The problem with Access. ... is thinking it's a full blown development environment. It's not quite. Plus good database design is fundamentally Hard and I've not seen Access make that any easier. (I rather doubt it possibly could.) These two can lead to some truly byzantine "applications". Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."
Post #63,259 by tseliot 11/16/02 4:20:28 PM Reply	nutshell: Access expects denormalization. Anything "more complicated" (which, to the experienced developer, is actually less complicated), doesn't fit built-with-a-wizard-cut-n-paste forms. Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10

Excel 97 spreadsheet to Excel database + form. Tips? - (Another Scott) - (43) - Nov. 14, 2002, 08:16:32 AM EST

I'd export to a delimited file - (drewk) - (14) - Nov. 14, 2002, 10:08:12 AM EST

Thanks, but that's not what I'm looking for... - (Another Scott) - (13) - Nov. 14, 2002, 01:22:45 PM EST

There's another issue with XL. - (mmoffitt) - (12) - Nov. 15, 2002, 02:37:02 PM EST

Get warp and mesa - (jake123) - (11) - Nov. 15, 2002, 03:00:42 PM EST

REXX??? As in Tyrannosaurus? <vbg? -NT - (mmoffitt) - (10) - Nov. 15, 2002, 04:13:48 PM EST

Pretty much, considering - (jake123) - (9) - Nov. 15, 2002, 07:34:49 PM EST

REXX is the pre-perl perl -NT - (wharris2) - (8) - Nov. 16, 2002, 09:58:28 PM EST

Maybe... - (jake123) - (5) - Nov. 17, 2002, 01:18:19 PM EST

Cheap shots :=) - (wharris2) - Nov. 17, 2002, 07:12:23 PM EST

How is that a lot easier? - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Nov. 18, 2002, 12:00:25 AM EST

I didn't say easier. - (jake123) - (2) - Nov. 19, 2002, 01:12:47 AM EST

OK, but... - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Nov. 19, 2002, 01:26:33 PM EST

Equivalent in REXX - (jake123) - Nov. 19, 2002, 01:58:54 PM EST

BZZT - Utterly wrong - (deSitter) - (1) - Nov. 18, 2002, 04:30:31 AM EST

know how you feel - (cforde) - Jan. 5, 2003, 01:57:05 AM EST

Nah...its trivial in Access too. - (bepatient) - (8) - Nov. 14, 2002, 02:35:53 PM EST

God, Beep! Bound Forms! Bleech! - (mmoffitt) - (7) - Nov. 15, 2002, 02:40:32 PM EST

It sounded like what he needed. - (bepatient) - (6) - Nov. 15, 2002, 04:11:00 PM EST

Understood. - (mmoffitt) - (5) - Nov. 15, 2002, 04:12:47 PM EST

Not knowing Access all that well... - (CRConrad) - (4) - Nov. 15, 2002, 04:48:48 PM EST

The problem with Access. - (static) - (1) - Nov. 16, 2002, 05:52:49 AM EST

nutshell: Access expects denormalization. - (tseliot) - Nov. 16, 2002, 04:20:28 PM EST

Access has some "special features" - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Nov. 16, 2002, 05:11:06 PM EST

Thanks, that's quite enough. On that other thing, though... - (CRConrad) - Nov. 16, 2002, 06:22:21 PM EST

DTS? - (gdaustin) - (18) - Nov. 20, 2002, 10:18:13 PM EST

Spreadsheet grows up to be a Real Application - (gdaustin) - (17) - Nov. 20, 2002, 10:38:33 PM EST

I'm looking at Access and MySQL now. - (Another Scott) - (16) - Nov. 21, 2002, 06:57:58 AM EST

Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL? Why don't you consider a REAL... - (CRConrad) - (15) - Nov. 21, 2002, 04:49:28 PM EST

Christian, WTF are you on about? - (admin) - (13) - Nov. 21, 2002, 05:03:11 PM EST

In that case, I'll point to one it *does* have: - (CRConrad) - (12) - Nov. 21, 2002, 07:03:19 PM EST

Um, my tinfoil hat seem to work better on you than on admin. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Nov. 21, 2002, 10:23:35 PM EST

Yours?!? Isn't it *I* who should be wearing one? - (CRConrad) - Nov. 22, 2002, 02:23:48 AM EST

PostgreSQL Python drivers... - (admin) - (9) - Nov. 21, 2002, 11:33:32 PM EST

Lot better than I thought... All your fault, though! ;^) - (CRConrad) - (8) - Nov. 22, 2002, 03:14:19 AM EST

Re: Lot better than I thought... All your fault, though! ;^) - (admin) - (7) - Nov. 22, 2002, 05:32:44 AM EST

"user-defined types" - would that be SQL-standard 'domains'? - (CRConrad) - (3) - Nov. 22, 2002, 09:37:28 AM EST

user-defined types - (admin) - (2) - Nov. 22, 2002, 09:40:59 AM EST

Wow, cool; the FB dev list is only now talking about that... - (CRConrad) - (1) - Nov. 22, 2002, 10:51:43 AM EST

Postgres is really a research database - (admin) - Nov. 22, 2002, 11:04:29 AM EST

That...is frickin cool. - (tseliot) - (1) - Nov. 22, 2002, 11:41:26 AM EST

What, the inheritance? - (admin) - Nov. 22, 2002, 11:46:22 AM EST

Cool! - (deSitter) - Nov. 22, 2002, 11:47:06 AM EST

I glanced at it, but didn't bite. - (Another Scott) - Nov. 21, 2002, 05:41:03 PM EST

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