Re: why>?

Outlook DOES have a sql interface.

right-click LINK or IMPORT in Access


and btw, i just bought a new laptop; ran Windows Update; installed
nothing else-- but Acrobat was all fucked up- right out of the box. So
i uninstalled and re-installed

and guess what I have now?

brand new box; simple re-installation and AcroRd32.exe is a goddamn
TSR!!!

why in the HELL would you allow your company to _buy_ this crappy
acrobat bull***?

you use an incomplete crappy limited product; you have to run out and
buy other crappy add-ins..

Access Macros are just a much simpler product than Excel VBA.
Access snapshots come included.
Access scales to multiple processors and it is 100,000 times more
efficient; long-term and short-term-- than any silly solution based on
spreadsheets

wake up kids


lose the training wheels



Harlan Grove wrote:
dbahooker@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote...
for the record? every company in the WORLD should have access but screw
outlook, excel, word

keep EVERYTHING in a database
...

So you don't know how e-mail clients like Outlook store e-mail? They
use databases, but highly specialized ones presumably optimized to
handle variable length message bodies. So Outlook is already using a
database, just one with a different format than MDB or SQL Server
databases and maybe without a SQL query interface.

I doubt that last bit, lacking a SQL query interface. I don't use (have
never used) Outlook, so I have no idea what it provides, and I have no
inclination to go searching through the web to find out. I do know that
Lotus Notes provides a SQL query interface to its database files,
including user e-mail files, and I'd be VERY surprised if Outlook
didn't as well.

So it looks like either you're ignorant of how e-mail client software
works, or you are so limited in your own mental process and capacity
that you can only learn how to use a single application, and that's
Access, so you leap to the conclusion that everyone else should use
Access for everything. Note that these two alternatives aren't mutually
exclusive.

With regard to ditching Word in favor of Access, kinda awkward to
generate tables of contents, indices, tables of authorities in Access.
Granted rich text fields provide much of the local editing features any
word processor does, maybe even automatic (rather than manual)
outlining features, but complex documents with multiple sections? You
really have no clue, do you?

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