Re: MS Access usefulness and size restrictions

I had over 100 on Access, smoking crack ah?

It is how you develop the db as with anything, you didn't know what you were doing so you got poor results.

"wayne" <no_at_email.please.com> wrote in message news:9fs2ie$5nm_at_dispatch.concentric.net...
> > See my response to Daniel. You must be out of your gourd to suggest
 using
> > MSDE, limited to 5 concurrent queries, in preference to Jet which
 routinely
> > supports 50-70 concurrent users (and that's _over networks_).
>
> 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.
>
> My old Clipper programs are still running (one with 30 million records and
> counting), the Access systems have all been replaced by more robust
> solutions.
>
>
>
Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 15:49:46 CDT