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> Everyone for whom coding is something that gets in the way of their real objective. While tech is (allegedly) evolving as fast as ever, the problems to be so
by raxxorrax 5y ago
> Everyone for whom coding is something that gets in the way of their real objective.
While tech is (allegedly) evolving as fast as ever, the problems to be solved often do not. Sure, scale is always an issue and you want to reduce maintenance. But how many project do you have that have to scale to millions of users?
> Visual Basic, Access
Very true, but those tools have evolved as well. Sure, everyone laughs about people not using SAP or Salesforce and instead use a self-made CRM. I have seen terrible things here, but also good ones with more features than both other tools could provide. And it made working far more efficient. Of course Access is only used as a front end today, but the fact that there are no real alternatives is a certificate of failure of those that criticise these tools the most (I did so as well). And it is surprisingly adaptable to new feature requests.
- oblio 5y agoCan you hook Access up to SQL Server? If so, yeah, most of its problems go away and you give regular users a ton of power.
- raxxorrax 5y agoYes, that is the usual way how it is used today. It is used as a frontend to quickly generate queries against a backend SQL server and make some fancy pivot tables. Very rarely is the data stored in the Access file itself.