"Mike Nolan" wrote in message
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Aside from the fact that Access kept crashing, it also generated bad SQL
and had problems dealing with Oracle's data concurrency methodology,
as a result of which it was corrupting the database.

This was, admittedly, in 1997-98, and I assume Access has improved from
then, though I think some of the problems may have been due to
inadequacies
in the ODBC protocol that are still inherent.

I find it amusing that comments are being made in 2003 about a product that
is nearly six years old. Access has had HUGE improvements over this period
of time. So has the OS that it typically runs on (Windows 2000 and XP and
not Windows 95/98). Provided Access is used for tasks that it was designed
for, it can be a highly productive development environment.

The PostgreSQL development community appears to be unimpressed with
Access
as a front end, too.

I would assume they are unimpressed by EVERYTHING that Microsoft sells.

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George