Re: MS Access usefulness and size restrictions

Even I can get Access to support 25 users simultaneously without too much trouble. Sir, pull your head out of the sand Oracle is a great product, but not appropriate for all purposes - and even Oracle themselves will admit this.

You may be a highly experienced Oracle developer, but your knowledge of other elements of the industry is clearly lacking. I would expect such un-reasoned and un-supported arguments from a 13 year old. Not a professional.

A wise man always picks the correct tool for the job after learning how to assess it properly. If you are sufficiently unfamiliar with Access, to make an informed judgement of its capabilities, find someone who is. Engage brain and then mouth; in THAT order.

Have a good day.

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Regards,

Richard H. Rowson

"Wayne Gillespie" <bestfit_at_NObestfitsoftwareSPAM.com.au> wrote in message
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> On 09 Jun 2001 04:03:05 GMT, "wayne" <no_at_email.please.com> wrote:

>

> Dispite your protestations, the fact is Larry is correct and you are

> VERY wrong.

>

> Without seeing your code or having any knowledge of what your systems

> do, I can say with confidence that if your Access database is

> beginning to fall over with more than 5 users then -

> a) Your network configuration is hopelessly inadequate for the task.

> b) Your database is very poorly designed.

> c) Both

>

> I currently have 2 apps in active use with more than 50 users, and the

> performance level of these is quite acceptable. There are specific

> issues which need to be considered in the design of the app to achieve

> good performance, but this is true of any database created in any

> format.

>

> Obviously a client/server database will out perform a desktop database

> when a large number of users is involved, but to suggest that Access

> is useless above 5 users is nothing short of lunacy.

>

> Please add my name to your plonk list below Larry's.

>

>

> >

> >All right. You crossed the line into language bigotry (you've never even

> >seen my code, nor have you any idea of what my systems do!).

> >

> >I am not reading the rest of your post and I am not answering to you

> >anymore.

> >

>