[DUG] List working?

[Neven MacEwan]

James

Can you post the URL to the Microsoft Site that states this please

Neven

James Sugrue wrote:
> Do a google for "Access Multi User". You see in almost all occasions the
> preface states that Access was not designed for Multi User environments, but
> if you do decide to use it such, here are some tips....
> 
> Access is and always will be a desktop database. The fact that it does do
> Multi user doesn't effect that fact. I'm sure you could use Oracle in a
> single user app too, but as a developer you should know the strengths and
> weaknesses of any particular tool before you start coding, surely?
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
> Behalf Of Neven MacEwan
> Sent: Thursday, 16 March 2006 3:16 p.m.
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] List working?
> 
> Don't be dim James are you saying that Access is not intended for DB 
> applications, The assertion that its ok  and was designed for "single 
> user desktop style" apps and not anything more is crap if it wasn't 
> intended for " multi user environment" then it shouldn'd effing well 
> support it (badly or otherwise) should it?
> 
> Neven
> 
> James Sugrue wrote:
>> The problem isn't with Access, the problem is people using Access for
> things
>> it's not really intended for. 
>> Access is fine - and I use it all the time - for single user desktop style
>> applications. It's when it gets used in a multi user environment things
> can
>> be a problem, especially when combined with bad design or programming.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
> On
>> Behalf Of Maurice Butler
>> Sent: Thursday, 16 March 2006 8:28 a.m.
>> To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
>> Subject: RE: [DUG] List working?
>>
>> Hi,
>> If you want to know how bad Mickysoft Access is ask any school that runs
>> musac - this is a student manager program that spends more time being
> fixed
>> than used.
>> If you want sql, mdse is alright for small apps that need sql & Mickysoft
>> compatablity.
>>
>> Maurice
>>
>>
>>
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