I'm just about turning the corner with my Access abilities. It's been a couple of years on and off and I'm now pretty comfortable getting things done from within the GUI. - VBA & Raw SQL is another matter.
But with all this time invested in Access I'm now worried that Microsoft is going to abandon it in future iterations of office. I know Access is not exactly a sexy product (like Power BI or Excel Power Pivot DAX etc etc), but it's a bloody handy tool for day to day work stuff.
Most of my DB's have minimal gui and are just driven through simple forms. They are a bit rough round the edges but the data is properly normalised and it works as intended.
What do you guys feel about the future? I personally think that Access could have a big part to play in the future of Small Business/Personal BI/Analytics, but I dont think that Microsoft shares those sentiments. It's been ages since we had a lovely new feature to play with and Excel seems to be getting all the love at the moment.
EDIT: Also I thought that we could do with a complete overhaul of the forms tool. I can't seem to get anything looking like it was created this century. (Vanity I Know)
But with all this time invested in Access I'm now worried that Microsoft is going to abandon it in future iterations of office. I know Access is not exactly a sexy product (like Power BI or Excel Power Pivot DAX etc etc), but it's a bloody handy tool for day to day work stuff.
Most of my DB's have minimal gui and are just driven through simple forms. They are a bit rough round the edges but the data is properly normalised and it works as intended.
What do you guys feel about the future? I personally think that Access could have a big part to play in the future of Small Business/Personal BI/Analytics, but I dont think that Microsoft shares those sentiments. It's been ages since we had a lovely new feature to play with and Excel seems to be getting all the love at the moment.
EDIT: Also I thought that we could do with a complete overhaul of the forms tool. I can't seem to get anything looking like it was created this century. (Vanity I Know)
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