Future of Access

I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer
supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few years
old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out....

Of course it's not the case. Office 2010 was just released, and Access is in
it, with brand new functionality.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://www.AccessMVP.com/DJSteele
(no e-mails, please!)

"StuJol" wrote in message
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I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer
supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few
years
old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out....

On 5/13/10 4:17 AM, StuJol wrote:
I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer
supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few years
old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out....


FWIW, the death knell has been ringing for just about anything. Everyone
always think there's something that's about to end. They same just about
same thing regarding Apple Macintosh computers and IBM as a company and
then few more. None of those, including Microsoft Access are actually dying.


But that's a generalization. Here's specifics for Access:

They just released a new version of Access in Office 2010. If you don't
know what they have added to it, you're missing out on many features:

1) Support for table level "triggers" and "stored procedures" AKA data
macros

2) In conjecture with Sharepoint, can now publish database to web and
use a web browser instead of having to have Access to use the database.

3) Revamped Macro Designer. Now, for those (myself included) that didn't
look like much of a feature - professional developer use VBA! However,
after using it, I can see cases where using macros in some place would
be beneficial especially in regards to navigation, and I would make the
case that it'd be faster to use macros to drive some of those logic than
to write the same VBA. This is just my opinion, though, and I'm aware
others are not as big fans of the new macro designer, but that's one of
new features.

4) 64-bit support. Now has both 32-bit and 64-bit version of Access.

There may be more but I think those should be sufficient to show that
Access definitely is not dying as many people were wondering back few
years earlier when the development languished.

Just one more thing. There's already a blog post asking about the _next_
version which should show you that they are also planning this so
there's also long range future plans:

http://blogs.msdn.com/access/archive...ql-server.aspx

HTH.

I remember hearing that Access 97 was the end of the road.
--
Jerry Whittle, Microsoft Access MVP
Light. Strong. Cheap. Pick two. Keith Bontrager - Bicycle Builder.


"StuJol" wrote:

I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer
supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few years
old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out....

Every once an a while a post such as yours pops up in this forum. Based on
the fact that I joined this forum back in 1999-2000, the end of MS Access was
supposed to be upon us 10 years ago! The simple fact of the matter is that
people either are talking about something else or they simply don't knw what
they are talking about when they make statements like that.

As the other posters pointed out, Access 2010 was just released! Dead I
think not.

It is possible that what the individual was referring to was the fact that
an older version no longer is being actively supported by microsoft, but that
has little to no impact on the usage of the software itself. I have clients
still running Access '97 and support for that was discontinued years ago.

For the time being, Access is here to stay and is a great option for a
multitude of applications that other databases cannot (should not be used to)
perform.
--
Hope this helps,

Daniel Pineault
http://www.cardaconsultants.com/
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"StuJol" wrote:

I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer
supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few years
old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out....

"StuJol" wrote in message
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I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer
supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few
years
old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out....

Considering that Access most likely has more users than all other databases
combined, it is highly unlikely that it will ever go away. Microsoft just
release Access 2010, and are actively working on the next version. Bet the
people in office that it will be around in 5 years, and if you bet enough,
you'll be able to retire at that time. AAMOF, I'll be happy to back that
bet, if you like.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.accessmvp.com
http://www.mvps.org/access

thank you everyone for your comments, its nice to know access has a future
and i'll gladly correct the rumars in my office. Many thanks...

"StuJol" wrote:

I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer
supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few years
old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out....

Jet is obsolete and it has been for a decade

move to SQL Server, kid




On May 13, 4:17*am, StuJol wrote:
I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer
supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few years
old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out....

=?Utf-8?B?U3R1Sm9s?= wrote in
:

I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no
longer supported?

The people around your office seem to be extraordinarily
misinformed. The last two versions of Access (2007 and 2010) have
gotten more development resources than any version since perhaps
Access 2000. MS is investing a lot in it and it has a great future.

Don't listen to the morons and Access bigots. Ask them for a web
page that supports their contentions. They won't have any. You can
point them, instead, to the Access team's blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/access/default.aspx

--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/

Banana Banana@Republic wrote in news:4BEBE617.3080704@Republic:

4) 64-bit support. Now has both 32-bit and 64-bit version of
Access.

This includes the Jet/ACE database engine, which is a big win for a
lot of users of it who aren't actually using Access itself.

--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/