From: Mike Stephens Date: 2011-02-08T22:26:57+09:00 Subject: Re: Choosing an office suite Everett L Williams II wrote in post #980275: > > You must be kidding...Access has holes in it that large trucks can be > driven through, and the "Jet" engine must have flamed out in a > rainstrom, because performance outside of single user setups is dismal. > It also does not have referential integrity nor secure record locking. > We're trying to help a person who doesn't really want to grapple with all sorts of technolgies. Access is much more... accessible. I think there's a bit of snobbishness here. SQlite is trendy whereas Access is a rank loser. Well Jet has sophisticated view mechanisms, supports complex sub-queries, does transactions, referential integrity, security, replication etc etc. I've worked in some of the largest financial companies in the World and you'd be surprised how many big multi-site many-user Access systems are in use everyday. The attraction of tools like Access (and Excel) for non-professionals is you can experiment by seeing all the time what you are programming and what effects it is having. It's not Ruby but don't dismiss this style of IT. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.