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Access was an amazing product. It was quick to a hit a performance wall, but damn it was amazing for business applications. Imagine replacing its rdbms engine w
by ibejoeb 3y ago
Access was an amazing product. It was quick to a hit a performance wall, but damn it was amazing for business applications. Imagine replacing its rdbms engine with sqlite...
- bombcar 3y agoIt really was and really is something that we're missing, the "next step up from Excel". Since code is too hard, most people just abuse Excel, but Access was truly a "no code" solution for many database problems.
- throwaway290 3y agoDefinitely not "was", current version of Access seems to have came out just last month. Meanwhile Airtable doesn't publish release dates but we know the same month it laid off like 30% of employees. It looks like one of them is surely doing OK...