Rating:  - Good Product - takes time to get used to
I started using Access 2 in 1992. Before that I used DBASE, RBASE and Paradox. I didn't like Access and thought that RBASE was the best of the 4. However, as things go, Microsoft won and the others are dead, either entirely or mostly. So, I decided to stick with Access and have for the past 15 years.
Access is a good tool for many things and 2007 is a definate upgrade to 2002. However, getting used to it is a little bit of a challenge.
I've used access as a stand alone product or as a front-end to a DBMS like SQL Server so I could get a significant performance boost out of it.
I use it to manipulate data for data quality issues and for data exploration and dup checking. And, it works great.
I've also created some pretty complex and cost effective application with it over the years with lots of positive results.
Rating:  - MS Access
I am extremely disappointed with MS Access. About 18 years ago I used Borland's data base program called Reflex. It was heads and shoulders
above the Microsoft product. I had thought that things were supposed
to get better not worse.
Rating:  - Microsfot Access 2007
I upgraded from Access 2000, and noticed that I could no longer paste a Microsoft Word picture into an OLE Object field in my database. I searched Help for everything I could think of, but to no avail. So I took my computer to a repair shop and it cost me $50 to find out that I had to convert my datafiles to 2007 format. I think that Microsoft should have warned me to convert when I opened my datafiles for the first time.
Rating: - Disappointing Product
You'd be better off using some real database software like Oracle or SQL Server. You can't do bulk column updates and Access is losing my data - so far, I've been pretty disappointed. Also, they changed the extensions of Access files from .mdb to .accdb - and now, VS.NET 2005 can't open the new Access 2007 files. I would have thought that Microsoft would make all their tools compatible - oh well, i'm disappointed, but you may like it.
Rating: - Best Database
I have used Access for years. It is the best database software available for the casual user as well as for the power user. This newest version adds many new features as well as new "ease of use" enhancements.
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