My first interactions with Access were all negative. My first DBA job I fell into on accident. It was such a pain we had users with linked tables to our SQL Server databases causing all kind of locking and even preventing jobs from running. My first real job was to create a job that killed all open connections from our generic account that we had given the password to everyone. Oh so secure... We were totally using Access for something it wasn't intended for. Next I had to get all the AD user groups created and change every ODBC connection to use a trusted connection so we could figure out who was even connecting. I think that is why I have such a passion for squashing its use.