MDB = obsolete quote from RedmondMag

[Susie DBA [MSFT]]

wow..

So Microsoft is admitting that MDB has been obsolete since 2000?


http://reddevnews.com/columns/article.aspx?editorialsid=1642

Desktop Database Dance
A new version of SQL Server provides the answer to a desktop database
engine.


by Greg DeMichillie


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February 2007


For many years, Microsoft had two database engines, the Jet engine
used by Access and Visual Basic, and SQL Server. But Jet has been
riding off into the sunset for the better part of six years, helped
along by the move to the .NET Framework and retirement of VB6. That's
left a hole in Microsoft's developer platform. The company needed a
database engine that can be deployed with a desktop application
without having to license and deploy a full-blown copy of SQL Server.
Now, Microsoft is finally filling that hole with a new version of SQL
Server.

 

[aaron.kempf]

wow, Susie

that is a great quote


'riding off into the sunset'

I think that anyone using MDB for anything should be fired and then
spit upon

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

A a r o n K e m p f wrote:

So Microsoft is admitting that MDB has been obsolete since 2000?
Rubbish.

For many years, Microsoft had two database engines, the Jet engine
used by Access and Visual Basic, and SQL Server. But Jet has been
riding off into the sunset for the better part of six years, helped
along by the move to the .NET Framework and retirement of VB6.

ACE in A2007 replaces Jet.

That's
left a hole in Microsoft's developer platform. The company needed a
database engine that can be deployed with a desktop application
without having to license and deploy a full-blown copy of SQL Server.
Now, Microsoft is finally filling that hole with a new version of SQL
Server.

And the author of that article is "Greg DeMichillie analyzes and writes about
Microsoft's development platform and tools for Directions on Microsoft, a research
firm dedicated to tracking Microsoft. He was previously the group program manager at
Microsoft responsible for the overall design and feature set for Visual C# and C++. A
founding member of the C# language team, DeMichillie was a key contributor to the
initial design and development of .NET. "

So he's not a Microsoft employee and clearly has little or no clue about Access.

Also note that article talks about Desktop applications. Well, Access is meant for
networks.

Tony
--
Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Please respond only in the newsgroups so that others can
read the entire thread of messages.
Microsoft Access Links, Hints, Tips & Accounting Systems at
http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

wow, Susie

that is a great quote

Aaron

Everyone here realizes that you post with several different aliasi.

Tony
--
Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Please respond only in the newsgroups so that others can
read the entire thread of messages.
Microsoft Access Links, Hints, Tips & Accounting Systems at
http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm

 

[aaron.kempf]

NO DUDE

ADP REPLACED JET / MDB A DECADE AGO


Access is meant for networks?
it doesn't work across wireless, wan, or vpn

why don't you STFU and lose the training wheels; jackass?

 

[aaron.kempf]

Tony

why do you think that I post with multiple aliases?

BECAUSE MICROSOFT CENSORS THE TRUTH I SPEAK!

 

[David W. Fenton]

ACE in A2007 replaces Jet.

ACE *is* Jet, just the next version of it. The old Jet will continue
to exist in Windows and have its own development path (most likely
just in maintenance mode, I'd wager).

 

[aaron.kempf]

ACE *is* Jet *is* DEAD. The old Jet will continue
to exist in Windows; but there haven't been any tangible benefits /
improvements to Jet in 15 years

It is already possible to use SQL Server Express 2005 in order to use
SQL Server without having a real server instance.
Now there is _NO_ overhead to using SQL Server.

you don't need to register a database; you don't need to do anything

Do you not read the news, kid?

-Aaron

 

[aaron.kempf]

and you're the idiot that is still using DAO

DAO hasn't been included with Office, Windows or MDAC for 10 years

you're the biggest friggin idiot I could possibly imagine

 

[aaron.kempf]

cess is meant for networks?
it doesn't work across wireless, wan, or vpn