Outer World (12/8/2013)
If you can access your databases through MS Access ( what a crime) why not just use SSMS to do you work ?
Yep for sure. SSMS Express is free. It’s more about what has been acceptable to the organisation I am working in.
I can write a SQL query to do DML manipulations. You probably can as well. Can Joe in Accounting? How about Deb in Sales?
The advertisement in the 50's and 60's was that computers were meant to make life easier. Now we get to the oughts and you want Joe to learn stuff, compared to using Access to allow him to click a button? You, me and everyone in the DBA, programmer or similar IT roles should be making things easier for the end user. We should not add complication to anything for the end user.
If you do, please try to find a job as a government bureaucrat that has people fill out a required form because they don't have a family that needs insurance.
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Jim P.
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