Re: Prevent Viewing on worksheet

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dbahooker@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote...
MSDE is a freeware component that ships on the Office disk.

If your network admin won't let you install a single measly component
from the office disk?? you should spit at them and say 'who the hell do
you think that you are? who are you to dictate which office components
I use?'
....

MSDE isn't an Office component. It's a separate program that happens to
be included on *current* Office CDs. Open question whether or not it'll
be included on Office 2007 CDs. Just have to wait and see.

They 'dictate' what's on any & all company computers because that's
THEIR job. THEY get to set the technology policy. Some people may be
able to make a case for nonstandard software (I have for gawk and R
where I work), but few large companies are going to put MSDE on every
desktop just to make you happy.

People would need to give examples of how much easier anything would be
if they had MSDE. You've been remiss in providing such examples. If
your main goal were getting more people to use databases rather than
just ranting against spreadsheets, wouldn't it make sense to help all
these other people out by providing some detailed examples?

And once everyone has MSDE on each of their SEPARATE PCs, wouldn't the
data island problem still exist? All you would have done would be
replacing isolated spreadsheets with isolated databases, no?

Your scheme ultimately REQUIRES centralized databases with all users
having access to those centralized servers AND permissions that allow
them to write and run their own queries, reports, even procedures. No
DBA in his/her right mind would even dream of giving every employee
such access. They wouldn't even give such access to every employee with
'analyst' as part of their job titles.

Pipe dream.

BTW, you're also ignoring the fact that lots of companies save money by
buying Office Standard, which doesn't come with Access.

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