Comments on: Top 10 Reasons Why Access Still Doesn’t Rock

By: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:46:18 +0000

No Name – I just love how you don’t have the guts to put your name or email on that comment, but I’ll humor you nonetheless. If I need to do a vlookup on 50,000 rows, I do it in – brace yourself – a database, meaning SQL Server. It’s faster than Access. Kthxbai.

By: No Name

No Name — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:57:00 +0000

“Excel has a heck of a strong feature as a front end, and I’d make the argument that I’d rather do a lot of my “landing pad” work in Excel, not Access.”

Ever done a vlookup on 50,000 rows? obviously not…

Preparing data for something? My choice Access!
Landing pad for data? Yes!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:53:25 +0000

Late to the party but.

A lot of people in large organisations don’t have access to SQL Server. (I do)

It really excels for RAD Development for small numbers of people.

I would argue the skill and knowledge competency of the proponent maybe more important than the environment that they use.

Hell what should I be more impressed by Facebook or the guys at NASA who managed to get to the moon?

By: Pau

Pau — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:49:47 +0000

Actually dude – it was not a plug. Just a bit of banter. No probs with removing the link.