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Get one-on-one support any time via chat or phone, or find answers fast with common FAQs. Internet access Microsoft account See aka. Even when you try to go on Access page and then click buy, you get pushed to Office Anyways, back to managing to actually purchase just Access!

A while back, and sadly I cannot remember who, but someone figured out that by going to the Bermuda locale on the MS website you could get a direct download link and from there switch back into their own local to get a functional link I had tried US and GB, but never thought Bermuda! Wonders will never cease! Below are a few direct links for those looking. I tried to find a link to download a standalone Access. Go figure. The following seems to work for me, give it a try.

You have no idea how much time I save with reporting only. Btw, try sharing data with an external company via Sharepoint, Teams, Onedrive if your global sysadmin acts like Mordac, the preventor of information services.

Mail an Access report or exported query and everybody is happy. Hello there! One thing Assess in not that good is a security. And this is not discussed in length or not even mentioned. Security this days is a paramount and no matter how much Access is good as a tool, it is not safe for anything more than a home usage. Yes, the SQL Server can be used, but than it is not a standalone database, and multiple licenses are needed.

Still, one can connect and dump the data which is exactly against the security principles. So, decisions, decision, is Access for domestic usage or corporate? I am getting daily questions on how to move Access to the Web. The interest is huge. I contributed to the invention of Information Engineering.

I have experience. I started using Access version 1 in and was impressed by how easy it was to use. I developed the SQL Server back-ends, wrote the stored procedures, etc. You can develop a simple, single-user app, using wizards, to do something useful. You can also develop slightly more complex, multi-user systems by splitting the Access database into two: back-end and front-end.

This is where simple VBA usually comes in. Someone in England developed a successful Access version 2 system with simultaneous users. You can make it efficient. SQL Server. I was called in to look at a VB6 system with an Access database. Response time going from tab to tab on the main data entry form was around 10 minutes.

The network was heavily overloaded. Government department with no money to spend on IT. But the problem was the way that the database was used to add a new record.

The SQL statement to open the new record read every record in the contact table, over , of them. That reads every contact into the front-end. That got the response time down from 10 minutes to 5 seconds. One line of code. I changed a few other things and eventually got the response time to around 1 second. There are idiots everywhere. You can do some interesting things with VBA.

I did a fingerprint booking system for a police department a few years ago. The system popped up multiple booking forms so that an operator could see all the machine and ink available spots for a location on one screen, and could enter the new appointment on any of them. That required the booking form to be an object that could be replicated as many times as needed across a screen. Sort of. Access fits a niche.

That niche to me is a rapid development solution. Hey want to proto type a phone app idea for a qucik brainstorm with a developer?

Need a certain task done or noted, need some form of database type information stored, sorted or printed? It is basically a digital swiss army knife. Add tot he fact that you can build a front end for a SQL Backend or other and you unleash any more power. Myself I use Filemaker Pro Advanced and Powershell for my rapid development or tool generation needs but when it comes to small to medium businesses Access is the easiest to purchase, license, and deploy using E3 license and since it is Microsoft, updates, support, and learning curve of ease of use is much easier to adopt than other third party options.

Microsoft knows this. Businesses know this. Microsoft has such a stronghold on this niche that few companies choose to compete head to head. Access is here for a long time. Now changes they may make? I could see Microsoft adopting more of a C than VB path down the road. I could see Access gaining more updated tools to deal with larger file sizes when using 64bit, better graphics storage, stability improvements, speed improvements in the engine, and maybe some GUI design overhauls to modernize created solutions.

But a coffin nail? Not for long way down the road. It is too ingrained into too many businesses to let it die on the vine. Sadly, your article is flawed and biased. Microsoft deprecated Web Databases from Access, one of its components. They never said they were doing away with Access as a whole.

Access remains the most commonly used applications from fortune companies to small mom and pop businesses alike and this is due to its extreme flexibility, compatibility. While it does have its shortcomings, no doubt there, your proposed alternatives cannot compete with Access, not even close to being potential replacements! I disagree with most of the comments here. Access is outdated, difficult to use, prone to crashing, and not suited to much of anything other than a personal sandbox or very limited application with a very small user base.

The reality is that younger developers have no desire or need to work with this product, and users have become so accustomed to point and click web applications that the idea of opening Access, which has the look and feel of software, is a joke.

If you have small data and just need a quick form, SharePoint Online functions just fine. Yes, I hear this a lot from people with no coding skills or basic knowledge.

It crashes when the database is not in stable state or an operation is running while things are running. There are techniques to minimize these incidents. Yes, that is what we are doing. Using Access for the GUI front-end only. We are currently looking for a GUI based web development platform to migrate over.

I picked up much of my understanding on my own through the Step by Step series so am clearly self-taught.

I see your revision. I would love to see any links to articles directly quoting Microsoft as having made this announcement. I have been an Access developer and trainer since , and a Microsoft MVP in and , and I have stayed up-to-date with everything Access related. Web apps, yes. Those deserved to die. After all, MSAccess is database software, the association needs a new database, so why don't we go out and buy Access and solve all of our problems?

There are a variety of reasons why this won't work, but I'll outline just three reasons here:. The idea of simply buying Access is very tempting. It's inexpensive, many businesses have experience with it, and after all, it's made by Microsoft. But as I've outlined above, the inherent risks and weaknesses of a generic database product makes it a very poor choice when there are so many good databases available that directly address the data management needs of associations.

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