Re: MS Access usefulness and size restrictions

Since I can build one that doesn't fall over with 25 users, and I don't even develop full time at the moment as I have other duties to perform, I would shoot the developer who can not get Jet to perform better than 5 connections. I wouldn't pay a contractor who delivered that ineptly. Excel workbooks can deal with five users working on them and it maintains a conflict history. Either the original developer was worse than incompetent or statistics are being manipulated.

Never forget D'Israeli's words (Old UK Prime Minister form 19th Century). "There are lies, damned lies...and statistics"

Have a good day.

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Regards,

Richard H. Rowson

"Joe "Nuke Me Xemu" Foster" <joe_at_bftsi0.UUCP> wrote in message
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> "Daniel A. Morgan" <Daniel.Morgan_at_attws.com> wrote in message

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>

> > Joe \"Nuke Me Xemu\" Foster wrote:

> >

> > > "Daniel A. Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message

 <news:3B3BFEBB.B5D08B5C_at_exesolutions.com>...


> > >

> > > > The head of the team that developed Jet left Microsoft and formed

 his own


> > > > company last year. What operating system and database do you think

 he chose?


> > > > I'll give you a hint ... I was retained as a consultant.

> > >

> > > I've seen the light! So, since Microsoft has indicated that it uses

> > > FreeBSD internally, we should stop using NTAS and immediately switch

> > > to FreeBSD? After all, surely NTAS itself is only one step above 3x5

> > > cards, yes? Just like we should use Oracle for *all* database apps?

 


> > I don't use Oracle for all database apps. There are appropriate places

 for shareware databases, appropriate


> > places for SQL Server, for DB/2, for Teradata, and others. But that was

 not the point of the original posting


> > to which I took offense.

>

> And you do not consider *this* offensive:

>

> "HAHA!  I almost choked laughing at your statement!  What the hell are you

> telling me that Acces performs so well when I have barely survived over

 it's


> limitations (with many users less than 50).  You are ABSOLUTELY OUT OF

 YOUR


> MIND!

>

> "Access starts to falter when you go over 5 users (this was actually

 measured


> by us) and when you start to go to a large number of records and/or large

> database file size.

>

> "Maybe I am pampered because we switched to Oracle, but your statement is

> absolutely false.  Access crumbles way too easily.  It is by far the least

> stable and least capable database I have ever used."

>

> -- "wayne" in news:9fs2ie$5nm_at_dispatch.concentric.net as posted to

>    comp.databases.ms-access, comp.databases.ms-sqlserver,

>    comp.databases.oracle.misc, comp.databases.oracle.marketplace

>

> > And which part of the fact that this was posted in usenet groups named

 comp.databases.oracle did someone miss?


>

> Not me, but perhaps you're the one who's missing something?

>

> > If you pour out gasoline and start creating sparks ... don't complain

 when you start a fire.


>

> I'm hardly complaining. Knee-jerkers deserve to get knee-capped!

>

> > I think we have wasted enough electrons on this. Agreed?

>

> I'm not the one who claimed a paycheck from Microsoft conferred immunity

> to getting poor results from not knowing what one is doing. Or has your

> database already lost record news:3B3B94B6.3737E184_at_attws.com ?

>

> --

> Joe Foster <mailto:jfoster_at_ricochet.net>    Got Thetans?

 <http://www.xenu.net/>


> WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above        They're

 coming  to


> because  my cats have  apparently  learned to type.        take me away,

 ha ha!


>

>