We are probably working in different market segments.

My market segment is clients who have very specific needs and they feel that the "shelf" software available either

A) Doesn't meet their specific...

Access forms are bound to tables or queries. The navigation from one record to another is done automatically (i.e. you don't need to code anything). A table can be local,...

I have only very rarely seen blocking issues in access, even with hundreds of users. A common issue is that people bind a dropdown to something like an order ID,...

I will say that being multiple developers on a project is a real challenge that Access does not solve at all on its own. Are you saying you have 30...

• This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by  TheSmileyCoder.

I can see why you would think so, and true that updates does require a bit of plumbing.

Personally my apps simply check the client version number versus the server version...

Microsoft Access is the bane of our existence. We have hundreds of Access databases and apps in production today. Allowing for duplication, since its likely more than 1 person...

• This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by  TheSmileyCoder.

I started using Access in 2008, as sort of a side project to my real job (Railway Safety Engineer at the time). I didn't have any knowledge of SQL at...