On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Chris Travers wrote:
> Case in point:
>
> MS Access was designed to have multiple database managers manipulating
> the files themselves directly and uses another file for locking
> information. However-- as anyone who has ever worked with the process
> will tell you: Don't do it. Data corruption (often unrecoverable) will
> result.
>
> The lessons we have learned from MS Access are:
> 1) Don't have 2 unrelated backends trying to access the same data and
> 2) Don't do it across a network.
>
> IMO, this shows a fundamental design flaw in MS Access at least given
> how it is marketed.
That all said, anyone who tells you MS Access is really an RDBMS should
lose their job...
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Sam Barnett-Cormack
Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths
UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University