RE: Large databases

Quoting April Wells <awells_at_csedge.com>:
>
> Access actually does pointy clickey pretty well. Is quick if you
> need to
> put GUI front end on something and don't have Forms to use (I still
> like
> Forms better than Access, but that is more bias for toys I like).
> We use
> Access to create a front end, sometimes, so some of us don't have
> to count
> values in an insert statement... To have the chair of the CS
> department
> tell me that Oracle isn't nearly as good a database as Access
> because it
> couldn't do Query by Example, though was somewhat of a culture
> shock. HE
> didn't even advocate pushing "real" life past 3rd normal, because
> of the
> diminishing returns.

He/She probably never worked in industry. Probably stayed academe all his/her life.

He's also probably never worked as a system/network admin or as a service technician out there fixing a broken database- a database that does not scale.

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