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Access 2007 - wtf?
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Posted By:
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mmcdonal
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12/18/2006 8:21:20 AM
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Folks,
Has anyone been using Access 2007? It looks EXACTLY like FileMaker. WTF?! I don't see a good future for access developers. Time to move on to VB, C# and ASP.Net with SQL Server 2005.
Yikes!
What do you think?
mmcdonal
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Reply By:
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Bob Bedell
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12/18/2006 2:02:18 PM
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It was time to move on 5 years ago. 
Bob
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mmcdonal
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12/18/2006 2:25:21 PM
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Yeesh, I heard that. I am good with SQL Server 2000 in Access, Query Analyzer and Enterprise Manager, and have some Programming Databases and SQL 2005 with VB and C# books, so I guess I will hit those between semesters here. I mean really, what were they thinking?!
mmcdonal
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Loralee
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12/18/2006 4:47:57 PM
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Okay, Mike, What is Filemaker?
Was hoping when MS depracated JET we would be getting an improved sort of Access with a "lite" version of SS in place of JET.
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leehambly
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12/19/2006 4:19:23 AM
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I wouldnt run to another db to quick just yet... the client I am working for is just starting to use 2k3, every other client I have worked for has been "even less up to date than that", is about as good as I can put it. Still come across 97 businesses!
For me, it is only the IT businesses themselves that are really affected by this. No one else has time to retrain the staff they have just trained.
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mmcdonal
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12/19/2006 7:17:37 AM
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FileMaker is a bland datasheet type of database like Access. It is hard to do anything in it, so it languishes. Access 2007 went to a FileMaker interface, so it looks like a spreadsheet, and you really have to know how to hide things in order to get it to work like a client interface. Basically it looks like MS decided to dumb down Access to cater to the 95% of users who just create spreadsheets in it. So the developers have to fight with the interface.
I wasn't talking about going to another database, just another architecture. Instead of client server with Access, moving to client server with .Net, and web based applications.
Speaking of web based applications, don't let anyone tell you SharePoint is good for a database interface. It is kludgy and not nice at all.
Anyway, I will take a run at Access 2007 and see what it is about, but I think the hand writing is on the wall with this one. MS had a good product in PhotDraw, but they gutted it and put it in Word and PowerPoint. I think they are gutting their data architecture and parsing it out throughout office. Office 2007 creates files in a native XML format, too. Like anyone needs XML on the desktop. And what user really ports data across platforms to need XML? (he asked rhetorically...) Yeesh, MS.
mmcdonal
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leehambly
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12/19/2006 7:32:18 AM
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I hear you big time on XML, not everything is a web-destined... seems pointless frankly... help (the very able and dont need help) 0.05% of the population out by putting the other 99.95% out.
But when is anybody actually going to get "user" use out of this... should be a add-in or feature, not a standard! This is the kinda thing that happens when they draw the requirements from IT people though, rather than the actual users!
Looks on the face of it as big a step as from 95-97, but I feel it is possibly a backwards step in some regards. I like the intuitivity in the UI though but that said, I havent spent a great deal of time on it yet, so I may be wrong!
Incidentally, have you done the xls rename to zip yet? If not, make an xls file (2007 only) and then rename the file as .zip, now open it in winzip... interesting, I hope you'll agree!
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mmcdonal
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12/19/2006 7:45:22 AM
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I tried the zip thing. Oh dear, that's not good.
Well, I think MS believes everything is SharePoint bound. the problem is that while WSS is good for collaboration (and it is, believe me) it is not a good archive. And the old Office docs work just as well. Probably the xml supports the SPS search feature.
mmcdonal
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