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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: Oracle - MS Access - Does your company have a policy about local vs. centralized data storage? (Perhaps a bit off topic?)
Unfortunately we don't and I wish we would have a policy to use central storage.
We are going to implement Oracle Apps here and I hope to get rid of "The Access of Evil" here and get policies in place for using Apps data.
Users copy another's Access database and tweak it this way and that way not understanding what lies underneath. They often don't know about changes in the databases or applications that affect their Access and Excel databases.
Three of us just spent countless hours trying to figure out a reported discrepancy in inventory for this month end end to find out the user was getting their information from a 97 Access database that has not been updated in who knows how long!
Why they aren't using the Business Objects and Apps reports we give them? I really would like an answer to this myself.
I also don't like local data often not backed up and if the machine goes or the user then so does the information.
Any way.. I am venting now.
Have a good weekend everybody!
Kathy
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