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Agreed I always thort it wierd that M$ don't have a tool to webify Access and scale it on sqlserver with no dev effort. You could charge what you like for that
by teknopaul 6y ago
Agreed I always thort it wierd that M$ don't have a tool to webify Access and scale it on sqlserver with no dev effort.
You could charge what you like for that: if the data got big, the company got big.
Great for lock-in.
I'm glad, but always surprised, they didn't do it.
If they had, appifying Access data would have been an earner a few years later too IMHO.
Too late now: cool kids are app natives.
- ryanjshaw 6y agoHave a look at the M365 Power Platform and Microsoft Dataverse.
- hobs 6y agoAccess does have a "Convert To SQL Server" button (though they never got the web stuff going)
- chaostheory 6y agoThey do now. It's called Power Apps and it's part of Office 365.
- WorldMaker 6y agoAs others are pointing out, they have such a thing now in Power Apps (including "appifying") and the extended Power family. But it's also not like Microsoft stopped trying to build such tools, they've had many fits and starts as priorities shifted and fads arrived and then faded away. InfoPath tried to be it for the XML world (and preferably the XML world hosted by SharePoint). SharePoint itself has always dabbled in trying to be a company's low dev solution for a lot information management/database stuff. The low dev stuff some companies have done in SharePoint Lists, for example, is wild. (A lot of the reason developers fear/hate SharePoint is the exact same "things I've seen" feeling from Access, with the added fun of upgrade issues of any modern CMS like WordPress. For most of its life Access maintained a lot of compatibility between versions until it stopped and changed file formats three times in a couple versions.)
- buescher 6y agoI tried appifying my sharepoint lists and it really didn't give a better user experience than just running the sharepoint app on my phone.