Microsoft Access: Is it still relevant in 2022? (1 Viewer)

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In the one place where I didn't run into that, there was a long-term Access developer working as a consultant. He'd been there for many years as a consultant. His job was to take over those Access relational database applications and bring them up to standard. He had no desire to be hired full-time for some reason I never really got out of him. Nonetheless, that IT department didn't wash their hands of such databases; they turned them over to him to rescue.

That to me seems to be an optimal way of supporting citizen developers, improving security while taking advantage of MS Access's flexibility.

 

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Really? I spent 25 years developing using COBOL, CICS, IMS, with a variety of BE's and we always had multi-developer teams. We used source control for safety. The difference is that most programs were stand-alone or if they were sub-divided, the same programmer built all the pieces. In the situations where there was a super-app, we had a build master whose job it was to coordinate adding new/replacement subroutines to the big job and going through a test cycle.

Quite possibly my ignorance I have never done anything but development by myself and then really only in two platforms.