Reply to: Ms access

[MikeC1408]

MS Access.. oh those were the days, does anyone actually use this to build new dbs?

Doing very well working in Access thanks

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Forgot to say - thanks for all the help folks.

[Weltchy]

Now that sounds like my kinda training course. Expensive?

Came in at around £1100, inc food & drink. We went for the cheapest option, which was a furnished apartment. Beer over there is 45p for a very large bottle of Kingfisher and the curry is cheap and damn good.

Course finished at 4pm to start with, but got earlier as we continued, leaving more time to sit down by the Pool at the local Marriott which was 5 mins down the road by taxi.

[voodooflux]

Mate and I went on a SharePoint MCTS course in Goa.

Now that sounds like my kinda training course. Expensive?

[Weltchy]

Has anyone ever seen that working? On three ClientCo sites they've had a partial or broken SharePoint system in place that nobody could make use of. As far as I can make out (from the fragments of functionality that did something, intermittently, on one site), it is like Pretty Windows Explorer for Particularly Thick Numpties.

Mate and I went on a SharePoint MCTS course in Goa. Since we got back, we've implemented a few decent sharepoint sites, the client we both work at is screaming for SharePoint implementations to do all sorts of things. When developed with Features and Web Parts, it becomes a very powerful tool indeed, very easy to implement simple lists, but backed up by .Net when you want someone a bit more complex

[voodooflux]

Has anyone ever seen that working?

[RichardCranium]

SharePoint

Has anyone ever seen that working? On three ClientCo sites they've had a partial or broken SharePoint system in place that nobody could make use of. As far as I can make out (from the fragments of functionality that did something, intermittently, on one site), it is like Pretty Windows Explorer for Particularly Thick Numpties.

[NickFitz]

When clients want a quick an dirty database, what do they use now for the GUI and data store?

What is the new MS Access for corporate mini databases?

ASP.NET + "You need Internet Explorer 6 to view this page"

[Weltchy]

When clients want a quick an dirty database, what do they use now for the GUI and data store?

What is the new MS Access for corporate mini databases?

SharePoint

[DimPrawn]

When clients want a quick an dirty database, what do they use now for the GUI and data store?

What is the new MS Access for corporate mini databases?

[Zippy]

MS Access.. oh those were the days, does anyone actually use this to build new dbs?

I was paid good money to do this about three years ago. They 'couldn't afford' SQL Server and the barsteward had thousands of users

[lilelvis2000]

MS Access.. oh those were the days, does anyone actually use this to build new dbs?

MY current client and I have built their database using Oracle and Access. It used to be all in Access...but we quickly ran into the multiple concurrent users issues...and the LAN used to be Token ring (eek!) which did help.

Now that things are moving over to India (weep), those lads are trying to decifer the strange coding and ever weirder table and view names. Oh well good luck to them.

I've now moved on to sharepoint and other CMS consulting.

[BrilloPad]

MS Access.. oh those were the days, does anyone actually use this to build new dbs?

The banking instruments which will cause the recession are being dreamt up now and will shortly be coded by grads using access.

[RichardCranium]

dunno this is an old app we are replacing but I was curious to know if we could improve it in the interim

It ain't broke so STOP FIXING IT.

Actually wrote something like this at one job, just did not delete them,moved them to a quarantine zone instead. Result: it did pretty much solve "their Access problem"

Balls of steel, man, balls of steel.

[Bright Spark]

There are serveral reason why excel is visible

1) so that the user could see any error messages that pop up

2) if the excel file is blank for some reason he/she knows straight away
something is wrong.

3) perhaps a recorded excel macro is run on the sheet, most recoreded
macros need excel to be visible.

4) It's a signal so once excel files have closed down there is probably a long
time involved in loading the data, so could opportunity to go for a coffee.

5) makes them look like they are doing some work.

HTH