Is any one using MS Access?

SPoss

Just updated office 365 and along with it Access 2016. I've never used it. Does anyone use it? What for? and should I?

HobbyProggy

It is poison, don't use it, we have so many application written by a lousy programmer in MS Access that i just can tell you STAHP, don't even think about it. Although for home DB stuff where you like to do things clicky shiny fast you might peek into it :)

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Lost User

´Mr. A at the next desk is cursing it right now. as it seems, some system variables change their names when the users have different language settings, which breaks the application. Great idea to 'help' programming noobs by translating some variable names.

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den2k88

SPoss wrote:

Does anyone use it?

Yes.

SPoss wrote:

What for?

Gods know.

SPoss wrote:

I've never used it.

SPoss wrote:

and should I?

No, if you're sane and have a good karma. It should be a local DBMS, it is... we never discovered.

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den2k88

There is a Hell sepcifically for the people who thought of it. Not a circle - an entire Hell. Just for them.

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SPoss

Professionally I use SQL Express, LocalDB and MySQL and couldn't think of any reason to use Access. Just though it was a hang over from another era, and looking at the comments, looks like it is. So why is it still shipped? MS has dropped other technologies over the years? I guess it still has a large user base

Mario Z

Yeah, this pretty much sums me up. :laugh:

HobbyProggy

As i said, it is easy to set up stuff, so non programmers and hobby IT people can use it. That's the result of big "fanbase" i'd say. But if you start coding and doing stuff in it you'll get sick...

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den2k88

SPoss wrote:

Just though it was a hang over

Given the case, hangover would be more appropriate.

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Johnny J

Not anymore, but up to 15 years ago, it was da shit for database "applications"... Access itself is not used much anymore, but the database file format can still be found in a lot of .NET applications because it's small, single file and doesn't require the presence of an SQL server instance. And "NO", you shouldn't use it. That time has passed! You don't even need to install it! :doh:

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OriginalGriff

Access is a database system - and yes, it's still used. Should you? Probably not. It's not a bad DB system, and for a single user it works fine, the management system isn't bad, and it's easy to work with from your code. But...as soon as you move to a multi user environment, it all turns to poo. Personally, I paid for it as part of Office, but I don't use it - I use SQL Server instead, even for "private" single user (i.e. me) applications. Internally, it uses the same files as Access, but it wraps it in a layer of comforting security.

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SPoss

I've reviewed the comments and have decided NOT to consider Access for anything, I apologise to everyone for bring it up and will seek counselling to prevent me having these though again. :)

SPoss

I remember it been used along time ago for a stores DB (not by me, I was young and DB were the preserve of the gods!!) But if I want a DB for my app I've always used SQL Compact and lately, LocalDB.

Amarnath S

SPoss wrote:

What for?

To upgrade all your legacy .mdb files to the latest version. Not likely, but still no one knows when MS will stop supporting Versions 200x of those.

den2k88

The code I'm working with is 15 years old and we are using an MDB file, compatible only with Access 97. We really don't have the time to change DB format but it's in the TODO... It corrupts. Alone. With a single user. And a fixed set of instructions...

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Johnny J

den2k88 wrote:

It corrupts. Alone. With a single user. And a fixed set of instructions...

Sounds like a disk IO problem... :confused:

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den2k88

The software saves hundreds of images and long textual reports daily for years without fail, only the MDB corrupts - probably it is a problem in deletion of records, as usually only the last 30 days are kept in the DB. The fact is that we do nothing wrong... except using the JET engine, that is wrong by definition.

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chriselst

My dad uses it. He worked for many years as a VAT Inspector before becoming an internal auditor for Customs & Excise. This made him a very boring man. He has a number of Access DBs he has created on his laptop to store his stuff on. It is perfect for that.

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Wastedtalent

Avijnata wrote:

no one knows when MS will stop supporting Versions 200x of those.

The trouble is, a lot of MS Access isn't even backwards compatible. We have one database in our office that uses it and tbh I can't wait to find time to replace it.

phil o

I use it only for personal-use databases. For a production database, or if the number of expected users exceeds 1, I would rather avoid Access' usage.

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