Re: Using a computer where pen and paper would have sufficed!
Access is a great tool for doing some jobs. Reading these tales of woe it is clear to me that they would have resulted in a mess no matter what technology was backing them.
Point: MS Access is a powerful little tool, with a smashing front end. I'm looking at devising a small database to hold details of database user setups, to replace an absolutely horrible legacy spreadsheet.
I could deploy it as Oracle or PostgreSQL, but then I'd need a second technology to front end the thing for display purposes, colleagues for the using of.
I cannot deploy a web server for this. I do not know Java well enough to write what would take me a few minutes, even years since I last did it, of running off a Visual Basic app with Visual Studio.
But Visual Studio cast a small fortune, and I have no license for Visual Basic.
I do, however, have a copy of MS Access. The temptation to spend a couple of hours doing the entire thing in MS Access is almost overpowering.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
