Hi from England

[Alastair]

New to this forum only found it last night, while I was looking for some information about declaring Global variables...

I have worked with DB's for quite a few years now, first DB I designed with Access 2000 is still in use to this day (quite basic - but still useful). I moved for about 9 years to a DB called Alpha Five, but recently have started to look again at Access and now have Access 2013 which I am struggling to get to grips with after a long absence!

I am now trying to convert a DB I designed in Alpha Five to work in Access... SO far finding this difficult - I hope you can give me some help!!

In my spare time I am renovating our house which we moved into approx. 3 years ago and the garden!

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

Hi Alastair,
I saw: "Hi from England" and thought it worth mentioning that this forum was actually British before it was worldwide, it got upgraded a few years back!

Then I note that you are moving from Alpha 5 to MS Access, that interested me.

I've been thinking of going the other way (to A5) because Alpha 5 appears to have such good Internet integration.

I wondered if you could enlighten me as to why you have decided to move to MS Access ?

And by the way welcome to Access World Forums (formerly UK Forums.)

 

[Alastair]

Hi Uncle Gizmo,

Well I like Alpha Five don't get me wrong but, I have struggled considerably over the last 3 months getting answers from the company regarding purchasing runtime licenses and reporting a number of bugs. I felt very let down by the responses I've had - none of the bugs have been satisfactorily resolved even now! I don't use the web side of it myself - all my databases are desktop apps. I own Alpha Five V11. A new version Alpha Anywhere (V12) exists but I have no knowledge of the newer version as this was mainly aimed at Web and Mobile users.

I need to expand the number of users on the DB I have designed in Alpha Five, as we already have Access in the office and the runtime licence is free, I thought it might be a cheaper option considering the difficulty and expense in obtaining this software from Alpha. Just one problem I've got to re-write the DB to work with Access which I am struggling with at the moment.

One major plus point for Alpha is their forum, it has many very helpful people, which I have learnt a lot from over the past 9 years.