Re: MS Access usefulness and size restrictions

"Daniel A. Morgan" <Daniel.Morgan_at_attws.com> wrote in message <news:3B3CB5EC.9311BD70_at_attws.com>...

> 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 ?

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