Barry, I like the parens. That's a good idea.

I've only had one bad title - Delivery Lead. The client knew what it meant, I knew what the client wanted, but no one else on the team understood it....

Technical Lead isn't a bad title, though I'd like it better if it were Database Technical Lead or SQL Technical Lead. Still, I think most reading the title will get/assume...

A good spirited debate! Access pro's, can I challenge you to write something for SSC that shows the power of Access? Top 10 Access mistakes? Deployment model and source control?

Also,...

Access users/gurus/MVP's, I'm curious what site(s) you consider to be the ones you use for Access that are similar to SSC, or even your "go to" sites for answers?

Matt, I think that's true of a lot of tools. Few have security baked-in in a way that leads/forces users to build something secure. Security is almost always something you...

Non IT oversight is a big deal. Nothing scarier than PII, PCI, HIPAA data sitting in unknown and un-monitored places.

Ron, I think you might be missing out on the front end. Access is very good at data binding and for those "admin apps" with not a lot of users,...

Donald, I like your comment on Excel. I would disagree on "as good", but totally agree it solves a lot of problems in the world and is far more approachable....

Ed, I remain convinced that most people choose to not learn/invest because they so fear "wasting" effort. All it takes it time spent learning one thing that is never used,...

Leonard, for once a "trick" worked out to be a good thing!

David, nicely done! Maybe the one thing I'd add is that seeing that there are people coming up that are on track to surpass you can be a good reminder...

Jeff, did I just see you plug for Access?:-)

Nice post Phil. I wish we saw more public discussion on this.

Budd, for exporting a blob? The next way I can think of is moving to .Net. You'd retrieve the dataset, then write the blob column to disk as a stream...

BWFC, no promises, but I'll try to keep in within bounds!