rollerbladegirl

The actual date of Access's introduction was October 28, 1992 see: http://accessmvp.com/Arvin/AccessOrigins.htm I began using it 1 day later on the 29th.

Access is actually 2 applications, the front-end which allows building and using forms, reports, code, etc. on the desktop, and a back-end, also know as JET or ACE which contains the data. As a front-end, Access is world class and unequalled or unexceeded...

I have been using MS Access for the better part of 28 years. In my experience it is the premier front-end tool for building desktop databases, although I like SQL-Server as a data respository. While Microsoft has added some functionality, the core program has been more than sufficient since the early 1990's. As far as Visual Studio goes, while it is a good overall programming tool, it can't touch the usefulness of any database design tool, much less...