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What happened to all the instructors of my day that professed MS Access was the database manager of the future?
by pssflops 7y ago
What happened to all the instructors of my day that professed MS Access was the database manager of the future?
- pgeorgi 7y agoRetired. As soon as the kids are in the work force, they're not the teacher's problem anymore.
- raxxorrax 7y agoI know many businesses that still use it extensively. Even for modern applications that call web-APIs to check for addresses or analyzing business cards to extract text info. Really no fan of basics dim-witted syntax and properties, but I am regularly surprised what some people manage to put in one giant file of basic. Most use Access as a frontend with a normal DBMS, mostly MSSQL-Server of course. I think a general purpose DB frontend with scripting abilities would be really needed as a replacement. You could just use a browser, but that somehow doesn't fit the target group for these kind of applications.